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You can either scroll down here to find the latest, or alternatively find out from the specialist indexes about recent, SF news, all our science fact and science fiction book reviews, top science fiction films (including for past years), the forthcoming national & international science fiction convention and film diary, and articles or reach these indexes from the front page. (Newcomers to this site may first want to see an introduction.)

Yes, our home page colour this season is green for summer plants. (Watney was a botanist you know... As well as being the first coloniser of Mars ....and a space pirate!)

 

Site news: A few of us were at this year's SF Worldcon in Glasgow.
                     (Huge thanks for publisher hospitality for some of our team by Gollancz,
                     Orbit and Tor. ☺)

                     Our site's page count has now topped 3,000.

 

HELP SF Convention reporters wanted

We are seeking to expand our convention reports of national SF conventions beyond Britain. If you would like to contribute a report then feel free to contact office [at] concatenation [dot] org for a one-page con-reporter's guide.

 

New up...

We have the third of our four 'Best of Nature 'Futures' short, short SF stories of the year.  These are delightful little SF tales. If you want to check out past stories in this series the Best of Nature 'Futures' archive is here.

For details of / links to the new content, scroll down to beneath 'Most recently added' below.

 

Forthcoming

We will have the fourth and final of our four 'Best of Nature 'Futures' short, short SF stories of the year in Mid-December to hold you over the Christmas/New Year break.  These are delightful little SF tales. If you want to check out past stories in this series the Best of Nature 'Futures' archive is here.

Mid-January 2025 we will have our 'spring'* season edition. Regulars will recall that our autumnal one included the season's full news page, with its Film News;  Television News;  Publishing News;  General Science News  and  Forthcoming SF Books from major British Isles SF imprints for the season, among much else.  There is a lot to unpack here with many links to YouTube trailers and other videos, so take time to sit down at your PC or with a laptop or pad, and dive on in.
* 'Spring' season here being the northern hemisphere, academic year spring.

Separately, we have a couple of stand-alone articles and convention reports.  Plus there is the usual tranche of stand-alone book reviews.  Something for every SF enthusiast and/or science bod.

                ☺

Most recently added

 

v34(6) 2024.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Nana Inheritance (1-page PDF short story) - Amanda Helms
  The deathbed of your beloved grandmother isn’t really the place where you should decide who inherits her brain, but that’s what we did...
   
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

 

v34(5) 2024.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2024

• Newscast for the Autumn 2024. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• How common are exo-Earths with water? – Jonathan Cowie
  Is the lack of watery, inner rocky planets an early Fermi filter? New science sheds possible light.
   
• Contabile ³₄: Triple Time – Peter Tyers
  Britain's 34th Annual UK Filk Music Convention reviewed.
   
• Levitation – The 2024 British Eastercon – Arthur Chappell
  Britain's national convention reviewed.
   
• Glasgow – The 2024 SF Worldcon – Tim Atkinson
  What's it like to attend a Worldcon for the first time?
   
• From engineer and SF fan to astronomy – Mark Paice
  Taking up astronomy as a hobby.
   
• Ten years ago exactly. One from the archives:
  My 25 years of Eurocons & ESFS – Roberto Quaglia
  After a decade as the European SF Society's Vice-Chair, Roberto reflects on a quarter of a century of Eurocons.
   
• Twenty years ago exactly. One from the archives:
  Robert Sheckley interviewed
  The SF author and Grandmaster reveals his influences, format preferences, idea sources and comments on working collaboratively.
   
• Thirty years ago exactly. One from the archives:
  More than Human: Colin Greenland, Charles Stross, Norman Spinrad & Tony Chester
  A panel discussion from the British Mexicon 5 convention in 1994.

v34(3) 2024.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Last Gifts of the Universe - Riley August
• The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands - Sarah Brooks
• Ancient Images (2nd review) - Ramsey Campbell
• The Nameless - Ramsey Campbell
• Echo of Worlds - M. R. Carey
• Those Who Dwell in Mordenhyrst Hall - Catherine Cavendish
• Red Side Story (2nd review) - Jasper Fforde
• A Promise of Peridot - Kate Golden
• Fight Me - Austin Grossman
• The Descent (2nd review) - Paul E. Hardisty
• Oracle - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks - Frazer Hines
• Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road - Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
• The Collapsing Wave - Doug Johnstone
• In the Lives of Puppets (3rd review) - T. J. Klune
• Daughter of Calamity - Rosalie M. Lin
• The Three-Body Problem (New edition) - Cixin Liu
• The Silverblood Promise - James Logan
• Beyond the Hallowed Sky (2nd review) - Ken MacLeod
• Beyond the Reach of Earth (2nd review) - Ken MacLeod
• Star Wars: The Living Force - John Jackson Miller
• Judge Dredd: A Penitent Man - Kenneth Niemand & Tom Foster
• One Eye Opened in That Other Place - Keanu Reeves & China Miéville
• The Murder Road - Simone St. James
• The Night Alphabet - Joelle Taylor
• The Night Alphabet (2nd review) - Joelle Taylor
• Alien Clay - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Alien Clay (2nd review) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Service Model - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Service Model (2nd review) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Service Model (3rd review) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh
• Someone You Can Build A Nest In - John Wiswell

v34(5) 2023.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement - Jim Baggott & John Heilbron
• Ptolemy, The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity: A New Introduction - Christian C. Carman (editor)
• New Worlds Profiles - John Carnell & David Langford
• Charge: Why does gravity rule? - Frank Close
• Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse - Jonathan Morris, Simon Guerrier & Una McCormack
• This Volcanic Isles: The violent processes that forged the British landscape - Robert Muir-Wood

 

 

v34(4) 2024.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Forgotten: A life disconnected (1-page PDF short story) - João Ramalho-Santos
  Deciding to live off-line is easy isn't it? Just unplug from the internet... Only, our life and lives are now so fundamentally interconnected that being off-line means anonymous invisibility. That will be fine, won't it...?
   
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v34(3) 2024.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2024

• Newscast for the Summer 2024. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Article on Britain's New Worlds magazine – Jonathan Cowie
• SF Worldcon publications policy – Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon 2023 – Ian Hunter
• Glasgow: An introduction for visiting SF folk – Ian Hunter
• The English dictionary for visiting Americans – A UK Worldcon resource
• 33rd Festival of Fantastic Films 2023 - Great Britain – Jonathan Cowie
• Gaia 2024 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• Ten years ago exactly. One from the archives: The Anglo-Romanian Science & Science Fiction Cultural Exchange Re-visited
• Twenty years ago exactly. One from the archives: The Greg Bear interview
• Twenty years ago exactly. One from the archives: SF, Globalization and China – Lavie Tidhar
• Thirty years ago exactly. One from the archives: When the Children Read Fantasy – Terry Pratchett

v34(3) 2024.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Book of Doors - Gareth Brown
• The Lonely Lands (2nd review) - Ramsey Campbell
• Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis
• Crucible of Chaos - Sebastien de Castell
• Play of Shadows - Sebastien de Castell
• Saturnalia - Stephanie Feldman
• Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde
• Dawn of Onyx (2nd review) - Kate Golden
• Doctor Who: The Giggle - James Goss
• The Descent - Paul E. Hardisty
• Orphans of the Sky - Robert Heinlein
• Lamb - Matt Hill
• These Burning Stars - Bethany Jacobs
• In the Lives of Puppets (2nd review) - T. J. Klune
• Incacerat - Gareth Marenghi
• Relight My Fire - C. K. McDonnell
• Relight My Fire (2nd review) - C. K. McDonnell
• Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder - Mark Morris
• The Mountain in the Sea (2nd review) - Ray Nayler
• One Eye Opened in That Other Place - Christi Nogle
• The Sky Vault - Benjamin Percy
• The Mars House - Natasha Pulley
• Machine Vendetta - Alastair Reynolds
• Poster Girl - Veronica Roth
• Doctor Who: The Star Beast - Gary Russell
• High Vaultage - Chris Sugden & Jen Sugden
• The City of Stardust - Georgia Summers
• The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennett, Witch (2nd review) - Melinda Taub

v34(3) 2023.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Harry Potter Official Christmas Cook Book - Elena P. Craig & Jody Revenson
• The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies - John Scalzi
• Selfish Genes to Social Beings - Jonathan Silvertown
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes - Rob Wilkins

 

v34(2) 2024.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Change Your View: The world is just enough (1-page PDF short story) - Matt Tighe
  It is the end of the world, there is not much left. Yet there is still money to be made...
   
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v34(1) 2024.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2024

• Newscast for the Spring 2024. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Fantasy: Realms of Imagination - The New British Library Exhibition
• The new Waterloo Doctor Who guided walk - Jonathan Cowie
• The 2022 Loscon 48 - Heath Row
• 2023 SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies
  (All archived annual film charts are indexed here)
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary with links to con sites and film trailers
• Ten-ish years ago. One from the archives: Films from the Mummy's Tomb -Tony Chester
• Ten years ago exactly. One from the archives: LoneStarCon 3 – The 2013 SF Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• Twenty years ago exactly. One from the archives: The 2003 French National Convention - Alain de Bussy

v34(1) 2024.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Winter's Gifts - Ben Aaronovitch
• Conquest - Nina Allan
• Creation Node - Stephen Baxter
• Bridge - Lauren Beukes
• The Lonely Lands - Ramsey Campbell
• Scarlet Traces -- Sequel to the War of the Worlds - Ian Eddington & D'Israeli
• The Seventh Son - Sebastian Faulks
• Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars - Phil Ford
• Doctor Who: Warriors’ Gate and Beyond - Stephen Gallagher
• A Dawn Of Onyx - Kate Golden
• Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion - Peter Harkness
• Silent Key - Laurel Hightower
• What The River Knows - Isabel Ibanez
• Bride of the Tornado - James Kennedy
• In the Lives of Puppets - T. J. Klune
• Translation State - Ann Leckie
• The Kindness - John Lindqvist
• The Blue, Beautiful World - Karen Lord
• Beyond the Reach of Earth - Ken MacLeod
• Hopeland - Ian McDonald
• Doctor Who: Kerblam! - Pete McTighe
• The Black Feathers - Rebecca Netley
• Promise - Christi Nogle
• A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories - Terry Pratchett
• Bonesmith - Nicki Pau Preto
• Airside - Christopher Priest
• A Sword of Bronze and Ashes - Anna Smith
• One - Eva Smith
• The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennett, Witch - Melinda Taub
• Lords of Uncreation - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood - Keith Temple
• The Curious Affair of the Missing Mummies - Lisa Tuttle
• Robo-Hunter: Planet of the Robots - John Wagner & Ian Gibson
• The Best of Roger Zelazny - Roger Zelazny

v34(1) 2023.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Word Monkey - Christopher Fowler
• Hauntings: A history of ghosts and where to find them - Neil Oliver
• Predicting Our Climate Future - David Stainforth

 

v33(7) 2023.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Dragon Riders of CERN: Learning to fly (1-page PDF short story) - Rachelle Wright
  Once more, humans are blindly encroaching on the dragons' realm... It has to stop.
   
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v33(6) 2023.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Aleph: Personal questions (1-page PDF short story) - Lavie Tidhar
  This story came out last year before this year's (2023) explosion in artificial intelligence (AI). But AI is not 'Artificial general Intelligence'. What would that first conversation be like?
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v33(5) 2023.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2023

• Newscast for the Autumn 2023. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny... A close look reveals... – Arthur Chappell
• When did the first human evolve? A SETI approach illuminates – Jonathan Cowie
• Conversation – The 2023 British Eastercon – Arthur Chappell
• The Sci-Fi London 2023 Film Fest – Jonathan Cowie
• Pemmi-Con – The 15th North American Science Fiction Convention – Sue Burke
• 18 Years Ago - One from the archive: Glasgow - for visiting SF folk (This is very dated and we hope to have an update for 2024)

 

v33(5) 2023.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Alternate History Short Stories - Anon.
• Hidden Realms Short Stories - Anon.
• Weaponized (2nd review) - Neal Asher
• Ancient Images - Ramsey Campbell
• The Ferryman - Justin Cronin
• Wayward Pines 1: Pines - Blake Crouch
• Wayward Pines 2: Wayward - Blake Crouch
• Wayward Pines 3: The Last Town - Blake Crouch
• The Malevolent Seven - Sebastien de Castell
• The Malevolent Seven (2nd review) - Sebastien de Castell
• The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: vols 1 – 4 - Philip K. Dick
• The Warlock Effect - Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman
• Essential Judge Anderson: Shamballa - Alan Grant et al
• The Dark Lands - Markus Heitz
• Not Alone - Sarah K. Jackson
• The Space Between Us - Doug Johnstone
• Dragonfall - L. R. Lam
• Silver Nitrate - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Untamed Shore (2nd review) - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• For the First Time, Again - Sylvain Neuvel
• The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz
• The Best of our Past, the Worst of our Future - Christi Nogle
• Fractal Noise - Christopher Paolini
• The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
• The Lost Metal - Brandon Sanderson
• Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
• Starter Villain - John Scalzi
• The Best of World SF - Volume 2 editor - Lavie Tidhar
• The Best of World SF - Volume 2 (2nd review) editor - Lavie Tidhar
• Equinox - David Towsey
• The Roamers - Francesco Verso
• Essential Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: The Citadel - John Wagner et al
• Essential Judge Dredd: Judgement Day (Updated review for the new edition) - John Wagner et al
• Paradise-1 - David Wellington
• Doctor Who and the Daleks (3rd review) - David Whitaker
• Dark Dweller - Gareth Worthington

 

v33(5) 2023.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Distrust: Big data, data torturing and the assault on science - Garry Smith

 

v33(4) 2023.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• In Response to Your Reader: Local issues (1-page PDF short story) - Gareth D. Jones
  Following the Event, the valley remained cut off from the rest of the world. But as the letter column in the local paper reveals, other things are happening.
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v33(3) 2023.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2023

• Newscast for the Summer 2023. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Best Science Fiction Novels Then (1987) and Now (2022) – Jonathan Cowie
• Space Launch Costs in the New Era – Duncan Lunan
• 32nd Festival of Fantastic Films 2022 - Great Britain – Ian Taylor
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted
• Gaia 2023 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: Eurocon 2013 – Kiev, Ukraine – Jim Walker
• Twenty years ago. One from the archives: Reading SF for the Blind (2003)
• Thirty years ago. One from the archives: Fact 'n Fiction 'n Me – John Gribbin (1993)

v33(3) 2023.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Transcendent - Nadia Afifi
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• Book of Night - Holly Black
• Infinity Gate - M. R. Carey
• Frontier (2nd review) - Grace Curtis
• The Red Scholar’s Wake - Aliette de Bodard
• Ragman - J. G. Faherty
• Growing Up Weightless - John M. Ford
• Beautiful Shining People - Michael Grothaus
• Psalms For the End of the World - Cole Haddon
• The Curator - Owen King
• Celestial - M. D. Lachlan
• The Secret of Life (2nd review) - Paul McAuley
• Garth Marenghi's Terrortome - Garth Marenghi
• Love Will Tear Us Apart - C. K. McDonnell
• Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Close to Midnight - Mark Morris
• The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Naylor
• Judge Dredd: Megatropolis – Book One - Kenneth Niemand & Dave Taylor
• The This (2nd review) - Adam Roberts
• Cytonic (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• The Kaiju Preservation Society (2nd review) - John Scalzi
• Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Children of Memory (2nd review) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• City of Last Chances - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Doctor Who and the Daleks (2nd review) - David Whitaker
• Hide - Kiersten White

v33(3) 2023.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Spirit of Mathematics Algebra and all that - David Acheson
• East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis - Warwick Ball
• The Book of Mars: An anthology of fact and fiction - Stuart Clark
• Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth means to us today - Nick Groom
• On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory - Thomas Hertog
• I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd predicted our future - Michael Molcher
• The Oxford History of Science - Iwan Rys Morus

v33(2) 2023.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Resilience of Humanity (1-page PDF short story) - Gretchen Tessmer
  With the boon of immortality, there came a problem. Population. Still, there's a way around that, isn't there?
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v33(1) 2023.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2023

• Newscast for the Spring 2023. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Charles Partington: A Life in Science Fiction
• Space Exploration 2022 – Ian Moss
• The 2022/3 Science Museum Science & SF Exhibition – Jonathan Cowie
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Is it time for a reappraisal? – Mark Yon
• Chicon 8 - The 2022 Chicago Worldcon – Sue Burke
• Chicon 8 - The 2022 Worldcon's Polish Programme Track – Marcin “Alqua” Klak
• British Fantasycon 2022 – Ian Hunter
• The Sci-Fi London 2022 Film Fest – Jonathan Cowie
• The Best SF Books & Films of 2022 - Possibly?
• 2022 SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies
  (All archived annual film charts are indexed here)
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary with links to con sites and film trailers
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: 23rd Festival of Fantastic Films 2012 - Darrell Buxton

v33(1) 2023.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Rivers of London: Bodywork Deluxe Writer's Edition - Ben Aaronovitch
• The Emergent - Nadia Afifi
• Weaponized - Neal Asher
• The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
• The Seventh BHF Book of Horror Stories - Darrell Buxton (ed.)
• Queen High - C. J. Carey
• Widowland - C. J. Carey
• Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
• Upgrade - Blake Crouch
• Upgrade (2nd review) - Blake Crouch (2nd review)
• Frontier - Grace Curtis
• The Final Strife - Saara El-Arifi
• Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara - David Fisher
• Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood - David Fisher
• Blood Country: The Raven – Book Two - Jonathan Janz
• Fairy Tale - Stephen King
• Tick Tock - Simon Mayo
• Beyond the Burn Line - Paul McAuley
• Ordinary Monsters - J. M. Miro
• Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii - James Moran
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2nd review)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (3rd review) - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light - Rona Munro
• The Sanctuary - Andrew Hunter Murray
• Expect Me Tomorrow (2nd review) - Christopher Priest
• Juniper and Thorn - Ava Reid
• Ruination - Anthony Reynolds
• Storm Echo - Nalini Singh
• Hershey: Disease - Rob Williams & Simon Frazer

v33(1) 2023.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness - Nicholas Humphrey
• Dice Men: The Original Story of Games Workshop - Ian Livingstone & Steve Jackson
• New Maps: More uncollected John Sladek - David Langford (ed.)
• Conspiracy: A History of Bxllocks Theories and How Not to Fall For Them - Tom Phillips & Jonn Elledge

 

v32(7) 2022.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Christmas Tree Barn (1-page PDF short story) - Mary E. Lowd
  Christmas trees of the future may have more personality, and not just for Christmas...
  

 

v32(6) 2022.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Venetian blinds (1-page PDF short story) - Gretchen Tessmer
  Global warming has become critical and it is time to leave...!

 

v32(5) 2022.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2022

• Newscast for the Autumn 2022. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Batman – Cinematic portrayals – Mark Yon
• Ghost stories from Asia – Steven French
• My Top Ten Scientists – John. W. Armstrong (physicist & SF author)
• Is Science Destroying Itself? – Jonathan Cowie
• Chillercon UK 2022 – Ian Hunter
• Reclamation – The 2022 British Eastercon – Arthur Chappell
• 10 years ago. One from the archives: Unconventional - New Zealand's 2012 National Convention - June Young
• 25 years ago. One from the archives: Lucien - The First Arab SF Mini-convention Reviewed – Kawthar Ayed

v32(5) 2022.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Amongst our Weapons - Ben Aaronovitch
• Amongst our Weapons (2nd review) - Ben Aaronovitch
• One Foot in the Fade - Luke Arnold
• The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake
• Fellstones - Ramsey Campbell
• Scorpion - Christian Cantrell
• Scorpion (2nd review) - Christian Cantrell
• The Book of Sand - Theo Clare
• Judge Dredd: Blaze of Glory - Al Ewing et al
• Chivalry - Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran
• Chivalry (2nd review) - Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran
• Land of the Dead: A Stoker’s Wilde Novel - Steven Hopstaken & Melissa Prusi
• The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
• All The Seas of the World - Guy Gavriel Kay
• Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse - Alex Kingston
• Aurora - David Keopp
• The Soulmate Equation - Christina Lauren
• Sashay to the Centre of the Earth - Chris McCrudden
• The Flight of the Aphrodite - S. J. Morden
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Last Crucible - J. D. Moyer
• The Last of Me - Sylvain Neuvel
• Braking Day -Adam Oyebanji
• Wolf Bane - Michelle Paver
• Expect Me Tomorrow - Christopher Priest
• Eversion - Alastair Reynolds
• The Extinction Trails - A. G. Riddle
• Lost in Time - A. G. Riddle
• Skyward Flight: The Collection - Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson
• Off Target - Eve Smith
• Shards of Earth (3rd review) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Beasts & Creatures Myths & Tales - Tok Thompson (ed.)
• Judge Dredd: Mechanismo - Machine Law - John Wagner et al

v32(5) 2022.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Future Stories:A user's guide to the future - David Christian
• The History of the Universe in 100 Stars - Florian Freistetter
• Planting Clues: How plants solve crimes - David J. Gibson
• Existential Physics: A Scientist’s guide to life’s biggest questions - Sabine Hossenfelder
• Science Fiction: Voyage to the edge of imagination - Glyn Morgan
• The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world - Tim Palmer
• About Writing: The authorised field guide for aspiring writers - Gareth L. Powell
• Packing For Mars: The curious science of life in the void - Mary Roach
• The Cosmic Oasis: The remarkable story of earth's (sic) biosphere - Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz

 

v32(4) 2022.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Zeroing out his wavefunction (1-page PDF short story) - Peter S. Drang
  With quantum uncertainty affecting people, a potential victim and murderer vie for reality.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v32(3) 2022.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2022

• Newscast for the Summer 2022. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Ian Green (epigeneticist & SF author)
• Discon III - The 2021 Washington DC SF Worldcon. – Sue Burke
• Novacon 2021 - The 50th Novacon – Arthur Chappell
• Windycon 2021 - The 47th Chicago-region convention – Sue Burke
• Using SF/F to justify Putin – Jonathan Cowie
• A letter from Ukrainian artists to the World's artists – Borys Sidyuk et al
• Ukraine's Invasion: Something you can do free in 10 minutes
• Gaia 2022 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• 16 years ago. One from the archives: The 2006 Eurocon - Kiev, Ukraine (pictures added 2022)
• 20 years ago. One from the archives: Should we trust scientists? – Peter Cotgreave

v32(3) 2022.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Age of Ash - Daniel Abraham
• Jack Four - Neal Asher
• The Bone Ships Wake - R. J. Barker
• Galaxias - Stephen Baxter
• The Way of the Worm - Ramsey Campbell
• Outcast - Louise Carey
• The Quicksilver Court - Melissa Caruso
• Mestiza Blood - V. Castro
• The Silence - Don DeLillo
• A Clockwork River - J. S. Emery
• Deep Wheel Orcadia - Harry Josephine Giles
• The Apollo Murders - Chris Hadfield
• Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• Gwendy's Final Task - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
• Empire of The Vampire - Jay Kristoff
• The Arrest - Jonathan Lethem
• Beyond the Hallowed Sky - Ken MacLeod
• A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine
• Seven Mercies - Elizabeth May & Laura Lam
• The Charming Man - C. K. McDonnell
• Beyond the Veil - Mark Morris
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• The Ninth Metal - Benjamin Percy
• The Unfamiliar Garden - Benjamin Percy
• The This - Adam Roberts
• Cytonic - Brandon Sanderson
• The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
• The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd
• The Cartographers (2nd review) - Peng Shepherd
• Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson
• The Justice of Kings - Richard Swan
• Ghosts - G. X. Todd
• The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach - Jas Treadwell
• The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
• Brothers of the Wind - Tad Williams

v32(3) 2022.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Human-Centered AI - Ben Shneiderman

 

v32(2) 2022.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Freemium: It’s no game (1-page PDF short story) - Louis Evans
  They detected an alien signal and so called Derek. First contact literally comes at a price...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v32(1) 2022.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2022

• Newscast for the Spring 2022. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Dune: the novel and films compared – Mark Yon
• The world of the Trigan Empire – Jonathan Cowie
• JUICE 2022 - Jupiter and Icy Moons Explorer – Ian Moss
• Whither Worldcons: Just where are they heading? – Peter Tyers
• My Top Ten Scientists – Timothy Gawne (neuroscientist & SF author)
• 31st Festival of Fantastic Films 2021 - Great Britain – Darrel Buxton
• British Fantasycon 2021 – Ian Hunter
• 2021 SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies
  (All archived annual film charts are indexed here)
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary with links to con sites and film trailers
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: Films from the Mummy's Tomb – Tony Chester
• Twenty years ago. One from the archives: Eclipsing the 1999 Eclipse: The first International Week of Science & SF – Roberto Quaglia

v32(1) 2022.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Doctor Who: And the Pirate Planet - Douglas Adams & James Goss
• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• Call of the Bone Ships - R. J. Barker
• The 22 Murders of Madison May - Max Barry
• Tomorrow - Chris Beckett
• Tomorrow (2nd review) - Chris Beckett
• The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman
• Artefact Space - Miles Cameron
• Born to the Dark - Ramsey Campbell
• Somebody’s Voice - Ramsey Campbell
• Hollow - Brian Catling
• Whisper Down the Lane - Clay McLeod Chapman
• UFO: Comic Anthology – vol. 1 - Andrew Clements & Chris Dale (eds.)
• Doctor Who: The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 1 - Terrance Dicks
• Doctor Who: The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 2 - Terrance Dicks
• The God is Not Willing - Steven Erikson
• Luckenbooth - Jenni Fagan
• The Great Troll War - Jasper Fforde
• The True Bastards - Jonathan French
• Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror - Mark Gatiss
• A Terrible Fall of Angels - Laurell K. Hamilton
• Light Chaser - Peter F. Hamilton & Gareth L. Powell
• The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu
• XX - Rian Hughes
• The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story - Dan Jones
• Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse - Alex Kingston
• Goldilocks - Laura Lam
• Goldilocks - Laura Lam
• Holes in the Veil - Beth Overmyer
• Inhibitor Phase - Alastair Reynolds
• Doctor Who: The TV Movie - Gary Russell
• Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks - Eric Saward
• Hard Time - Jodi Taylor
• Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Screams from the Void - Anne Tibbets
• The Hood - Lavie Tidhar
• Andrea Víctrix - Llorenç Villalonga
• Soot - Dan Vyleta
• Judge Dredd: Guatemala - John Wagner
• Have You Seen Me? - Alexandra Weis
• Moonbase Alpha: Technical Operations Manual - Steve White (ed.)
• Doctor Who: The Witchfinders - Joy Wilkinson

v32(1) 2022.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic - Owen Davies

v31(6) 2021.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• An Intersection of Parallel Lives (1-page PDF short story) - Wendy Nikel
  A long departed generation ship represents a commercial opportunity...
  (Our few die-hard Twitter followers got this a few days earlier)
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v31(5) 2021.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Press Play (1-page PDF short story) - Marissa Lingen
  War was coming, but we could protect our children by putting them in stasis. But there is a cost...

 

v31(4) 2021.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2021

• Newscast for the Autumn 2021. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Getting Published -- From MS to print – Sue Burke
• My Top Ten Scientists – Ken MacLeod (zoologist & SF author)
• Fictionalising Science and CoVID -- Will politicians be held to account? – Jonathan Cowie
• The Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor ’Oumuamua Revisited – Duncan Lunan
• Universes all the way down (1-page PDF short story) - Matt Tighe
  The aliens are more advanced and occasionally like to give a helping hand with things like, say, understanding the nature of the universe...
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: How long? -- Should there be really thick SF novels? – Peter Tyers

v31(4) 2021.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• What Abigail Did That Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
• Doctor Who: At Childhood's End - Sophie Aldred
• Doctor Who: At Childhood's End (2nd review) - Sophie Aldred
• Clay's Ark - Octavia Butler
• Mind of My Mind - Octavia Butler
• Patternmaster - Octavia Butler
• The Searching Dead - Ramsey Campbell
• Maker's Curse - Trudi Canavan
• Day Zero - C. Robert Cargill
• Whisper Down the Lane - Clay McLeod Chapman
• The Stitcher and the Mute - D. K. Fields
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman
• Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
• Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
• The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M. John Harrison
• The City We Became - N. K. Jemisin
• The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
• Dare to Know - James Kennedy
• All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions - David Langford
• The Wandering Earth - Christopher Bec & Stefano Raffaele
• A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine
• Radio Life - Derek B. Miller
• Notes from the Burning Age - Claire North
• Lycanthropy and other Chronic Illnesses - Kirsten O’Neal
• We Are Satellites - Sarah Pinsker
• The 2084 Report - James Laurence Powell
• Purgatory Mount - Adam Roberts
• Doctor Who: Dalek - Robert Shearman
• The Dying Squad - Adam Simcox
• The Lamplighters - Emma Stonex
• Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Doors of Eden - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Best of World SF - Volume 1 - Lavie Tidhar (editor)
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• The Ion Raider - Ian Whates
• The End of October - Lawrence Wright

v31(4) 2021.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• On the Fringe: Where science meets pseudoscience - Michael D. Gordin
• The Ministry of Truth: A biography of George Orwell's 1984 - Dorian Lynskey
• How Norwich Fought Against The Plague - Frank Meeres

 

v31(3) 2021.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Game (1-page PDF short story) - Michael Adam Robson
  Being chased by the robots is a bit of a pain considering they were not exactly rebelling...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v31(2) 2021.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2021

• Newscast for the Summer 2021. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Alastair Reynolds (astrophysicist & SF author)
• Moonrock 2021: a review prior to China's sample return mission – Duncan Lunan
• CoNZealand – The 2020 SF Worldcon – Simon Litten
• 2020/21 (12 months to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart Deferred!
  (All archived annual film charts are indexed here)
• Gaia 2021 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: Top 10 (and worst 10) Horror Films of the 20th Century – Tony Chester

v31(2) 2021.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Sentient - Nadia Afifi
• The Sentient (2nd review) - Nadia Afifi
• Dead Man in a Ditch - Luke Arnold
• Ghoster - Jason Arnopp
• World Engines: Creator - Stephen Baxter
• Inscape - Louise Carey
• The Trials of Koli - M. R. Carey
• The City Among the Stars - Francis Carsac
• Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown - Steve Cole
• Stoker's Wilde West - Steven Hopstaken & Melissa Prusi
• Steel Crow Saga - Paul Krueger
• Hold Up the Sky - Cixin Liu
• War of the Maps - Paul McAuley
• The Stranger Times - C. K. McDonnell
• Tomb of the Gods - Brian Moorland
• Gallowglass - S. J. Morden
• The Evidence - Christopher Priest
• The Lost Colony - A. G. Riddle
• The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Secret Santa - Andrew Shaffer
• Thirteen Storeys - Jonny Sims
• Bear Head - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• By Force Alone - Lavie Tidhar
• This Fragile Earth - Susannah Wise

v31(2) 2021.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Werewolf in the Ancient World - Daniel Ogden
• The Ankh-Morpork Archives Volume II - Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs & Paul Kidby

 

v31(1) 2021.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2021

• Newscast for the Spring 2021. This includes within it many key sections. See the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• The British SF Association: A Year in the Chair – Allen Stroud
• Creating a new SF/F publishing house – Mark Bilsborough
• eFanzines: its curator reflects in its 20th year – Bill Burns
• My Top Ten Scientists – Carole Stivers (biochemist & SF author)
• A Worldcon future -- developments from science symposia – Jonathan Cowie
• CoNZealand – The 2020 SF Worldcon – Suzie Eisfelder
• DemiSemiQuaver – The 2020 UK Filk Convention – Peter Tyers
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary with links to con sites and film trailers
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: SF in Romania since the 1990 revolution – Laurentiu Nistorescu, Antuza Genescu and Dorin Davideanu

v31(1) 2021.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• False Value - Ben Aaronovitch
• The October Man - Ben Aaronovitch
• The October Man (2nd review) - Ben Aaronovitch
• The Trouble With Peace - Joe Abercrombie
• Devil’s Blade - Mark Alder
• Doctor Who: At Childhood's End - Sophie Aldred
• Origamy - Rachel Armstrong
• Snowball - Gregory Bastianelli
• Beneath the World, a Sea - Chris Beckett
• Two Tribes - Chris Beckett
• Howling Dark - Jim Butcher
• The Wise Friend (2nd review) - Ramsey Campbell
• The Book of Koli (2nd review) - M. R. Carey
• Star Wars Rise of Skywalker – Expanded Edition - Rae Carson
• American Gods: The Moment of the Storm - Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell & Scott Hampton
• The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M. John Harrison
• Ink and Sigil - Kevin Hearne
• The Raven - Jonathan Janz
• Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series 3: M. R. James - Trevor Kennedy
• Tanith By Choice - Tanith Lee
• Of Ants and Dinosaurs - Cixin Liu
• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz
• Curse the Day - Judith O'Reilly
• Curse the Day (2nd review) - Judith O'Reilly
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Animal Farm (2nd review) - George Orwell
• Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini
• The Living Dead - George A. Romero
• The Mother Code - Carole Stivers

v31(1) 2021.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Oxford Guide to Plain English - Martin Cutts
• The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse - Chris Lintott
• Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse - Isabel Lloyd & Phil Clarke
• Extraterrestrial: The first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth - Avi Loeb
• Future Politics: Living together in a world transformed by tech - Jamie Susskind

 

v30(5) 2020.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Your guide to the ever-shrinking solitude on Planet Earth (1-page PDF short story) - Jo Miles
  In an increasingly interconnected world, it is ever more difficult to have a moment of peace. But it is possible, just! Here's how...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v30(4) 2020.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2020

• Newscast for the Autumn 2020. This includes within it many key sections. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• How Eastercon and Worldcon fandom survived lockdown – Caroline Mullan
• Loncon 3 - The 2014 UK SF Worldcon. – Mark Bilsborough A retrospective in light of the new UK, 2024 bid.
• Space exploration projects deploying in 2021 – Ian Moss Forthcoming space missions.
• Keep Mars human free! – Jonathan Cowie  Keep Mars for the Martians.
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: Au Contraire - New Zealand's 2010 national convention - With the CoNZealand's 2020 Worldcon virtually now over, a look back at an NZ natcon in Wellington.
• 'Infringement: Brought down to Earth' (1-page PDF short story) by Timothy J. Gawne
  A new story from the 'Best of...' Nature Futures series.  Do you have the right to exist? Is your Earth's copyright valid...?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v30(4) 2020.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Book of Koli - M. R. Carey
• The Faceless Old Woman Who Lives in Your Home - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Candor
• The Peripheral - William Gibson
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (2nd review) - Grady Hendrix
• Goldilocks - Laura Lam
• Octavia Gone - Jack McDevitt
• Slow Lightning - Jack McDevitt
• Howling Dark - Christopher Ruocchio
• The Last Emprox - John Scalzi
• Docile - K. M. Szpara
• Docile (2nd review) - K. M. Szpara
• Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Doors of Eden - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Making Wolf - Tade Thompson

 

v30(3) 2020.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2020

• Newscast for the Summer 2020. This includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Julie Novakova (biologist & SF author).  A number of SF authors are also scientists. But who are the scientists and the science that inspired these scientist authors?  This is part of an on-going series by SF authors with science qualifications.
• SARS-CoV-2, CoVID-19 and the SF community: A briefing
• Wellington: for visiting SF folk 2020 – Jacqueline Brasfield et al.  OK, so this year's Worldcon that was scheduled for New Zealand will now not take place as a physical event.  But what might the tourism dimensions have been like? (This overview might perhaps encourage a future Worldcon bid and in any case there are NZ natcons every few years in Wellington well worth attending in combination with a holiday.)
• 2019/20 (12 months to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• 'Please [Redacted] My Last E-mail' (1-page PDF short story) by Kurt Pankau
  A new story from the 'Best of...' Nature Futures series.  Any future e-mails you get from me are also really from me. Even if they completely contradict everything I’m saying right now…
• One from the archives: When the Children Read Fantasy – Terry Pratchett (1994)
• SF Convention go-er appeal.  At home in lockdown?  Do you have a favourite convention you go to time and again?  Want to make an SFnal mark?  How about giving them a promotional puff..?
• Gaia 2020 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v30(3) 2020.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Providence - Max Barry
• Doctor Who: Star Tales - Trevor Baxendale et al
• World Engines: Destroyer - Stephen Baxter
• The Wise Friend - Ramsey Campbell
• Exhalation - Ted Chiang
• The Sky Weaver - Kristen Ciccarelli
• The Secret Chapter - Genevieve Cogman
• Vulcan's Forge - Robert Mitchell Evans
• The True Bastards - Jonathan French
• Agency - William Gibson
• The Deathworld Omnibus - Harry Harrison
• The Deathworld Omnibus (2nd review) - Harry Harrison
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix
• The Nightjar - Deborah Hewitt
• Full Throttle - Joe Hill
• Elevation - Stephen King
• Elevation (2nd review) - Stephen King
• A Queen in Hiding - Sarah Kozloff
• Steel Crow Saga - Paul Krueger
• Battle Beyond the Dolestars - Chris McCrudden
• Bone Silence - Alastair Reynolds
• Bone Silence (2nd review) - Alastair Reynolds
• Revelation of the Daleks - Eric Saward
• The Infinite Noise - Lauren Shippen
• Dracul - Dacre Stoker & J. D. Barker
• The Sisters Grimm - Menna van Praag
• Doctor Who: The Target Storybook - various
• The Forever House - Tim Waggoner

v30(3) 2020.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Conjuring the Universe: The origins of the laws of nature - Peter Atkins
• The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions - Brandon R. Brown
• Building A Resilient Tomorrow: How to prepare for the coming climate disruption - Alice C. Hill & Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
• Apocalypse Now: Technology and the threat of disaster - Oliver Letwin
• The Ankh-Morpork Archives: A Discworld Anthology Volume 1 - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs
• Jet Stream: A journey through our changing climate - Tim Woolings

 

v30(2) 2020.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Tentacle and You – It's a whole new start (1-page PDF short story) - John Wiswell
  You’re probably one of the first people in your entire civilisation to get this gift, and we know how overwhelming that can feel. That’s why we’ve compiled a few tips to coach you.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v30(1) 2020.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2020

• Newscast for the Spring 2020. This includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Ian Irvine (marine environmental geochemist)
• 30th Festival of Fantastic Films 2019 - Great Britain – Darrel Buxton
• British Fantasycon 2019 – Ian Hunter
• Dublin – The 2019 World SF Convention – Marcin “Alqua” Klak
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary

v30(1) 2020.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie
• The Warship - Neal Asher
• World Engines: Destroyer - Stephen Baxter
• Xeelee Redemption - Stephen Baxter
• Fall of Shannara: The Stiehl Assassin - Terry Brooks
• Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
• Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler
• Exhalation - Ted Chiang
• Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge - Black Spire - Delilah S. Dawson
• The House of Sundering Flames - Aliette de Bodard
• The House of Sundering Flames (2nd review) - Aliette de Bodard
• Widow’s Welcome - D. K. Fields
• Widow’s Welcome (2nd review) - D. K. Fields
• Snow, Glass, Apples - Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran
• Star Wars: Master and Apprentice - Claudia Gray
• The Second Sleep - Robert Harris
• Cold Storage - David Koepp
• The Poetic Edda - Carolyne Larrington
• Knight of Stars - Tom Lloyd
• Dan Dare: The Evil One - Dave Motton & Keith Watson
• The Last Day - Andrew Hunter Murray
• The Games House - Claire North
• Velocity Weapon - Meghan E. O’Keefe
• Episodes - Christopher Priest
• Episodes (2nd review) - Christopher Priest
• Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks - Eric Saward
• We Are the Dead - Mike Shackle
• Wolf Rain - Nalini Singh
• Wolf Rain (2nd review) - Nalini Singh
• Shadows of the Short Days - Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson
• Dark Justice – Dominion - John Wagner & Nick Percival
• Judge Dredd: The Small House - Rob Williams & Henry Flint
• Star Wars: Thrawn – Treason - Timothy Zahn

v30(1) 2020.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage - Daniel R. Altschuler & Fernando J. Ballesteros
• In Praise of Beer - Charles W. Bamforth
• Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Desirina Boskovich
• Talking to Robots: How AI will shape our future - David Ewing Duncan
• Secularity and Science: What scientists around the world think about religion - E. H. Ecklund
• The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book - Neil Gaiman
• Graphene: The superstrong, superthin, and superversatile material that will revolutionise the world - Les Johnson & Joseph E. Meany
• All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of immortality in the digital age - Elaine Kasket
• From Science Fiction to Science Fact: How writers of the past invented our present - Joel Levy
• The Day It Finally Happens: The Good News About our Worst Nightmares and the Bad News About Some of our Wildest Dreams - Mike Pearl
• The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion: Your Guide to Armageddon and the series based on the bestselling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Matt Whyman

 

v29(7) 2019.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• A Beginner’s Guide to Space Travel and Seafood' – Are you ready for a new life? (1-page PDF short story) - Steven Fischer
  So you want to live on another planet? Well, don't use the standard starships. You know what happens. This new company is your better bet...
  (If you like this story then you can support promulgating the author's work by taking a second re-Tweeting or Facebook sharing.)

 

v29(6) 2019.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• So, one of those tiny alien spaceships has flown into your house. Now what?(1-page PDF short story) - Laura Pearlman
  The best strategy is not to let them in, but maybe you left your chimney flue open or didn’t notice a hole in a window screen, and now there’s a tiny alien spaceship flitting around your living room or kitchen... What to do?
  (If you like this story then you can support promulgating the author's work by re-Tweeting.)
• The index to all of the SF² Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v29(5) 2019.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2019

• Newscast for the Autumn 2019. This includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Dominic Dulley (software engineer)
• CERN – Science or Tourism? – Jane O'Reilly
• The Shoestringcon [1]: Polycon 1979 story – Pete Gilligan
• Dublin – The 2019 World SF Convention – Sue Burke
• Ytterbium – The 2019 British Eastercon – Arthur Chappell
• GeyserCon – New Zealand's 2019 national convention – Alan Robson

v29(5) 2019.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Soldier - Neal Asher
• The Tangled Lands - Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
• Stone Clock - Andrew Bannister
• Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear
• The Unbound Empire - Melissa Caruso
• Earthlight - Arthur C. Clarke
• Against the Fall of Night - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Everlasting Rose - Dhonielle Clayton
• Tiamat's Wrath - James S. A. Corey
• One of Us - Craig DiLouie
• Radicalized - Cory Doctorow
• Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen - James Goss (& Douglas Adams)
• The Testament of Loki - Joanne M. Harris
• Smoke in the Glass - Chris Humphreys
• Colder Greyer Stones - Tanith Lee
• Snakeskins - Tim Major
• The Migration - Helen Marshall
• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• The Psychology of Time Travel - Kate Mascarenhas
• Ghost Virus - Graham Masterton
• Luna: Moon Rising - Ian McDonald
• Doomsday Morning - C. L. Moore
• Fury - C. L. Moore
• Northwest of Earth - C. L. Moore
• No Way - S. J. Morden
• Atlas Alone - Emma Newman
• From Divergent Suns - Sam Peters
• Waste Tide - Chen Quifan
• Blood Communion – A Tale of Prince Lestat - Anne Rice
• The Consuming Fire - John Scalzi
• New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek - John Sladek
• Galactic Patrol - E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• Grey Lensmen - E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• Second Stage Lensmen - E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• The Bastard Legion: War Criminals - Gavin Smith
• The Rosewater Insurrection - Tade Thompson
• Thirteen Doctors: 13 Stories - Various
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
• Judge Dredd: Cold Wars - John Wagner et al
• The Last Astronaut - David Wellington
• The Poison Song - Jen Williams

v29(5) 2019.9.25 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Raw Spirit: In search of the perfect dram - Iain Banks
• The Future of Humanity:Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny beyond Earth - Michio Kaku
• Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence - James Lovelock
• Why Superman Doesn’t Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics - Brian O’Roark
• Heroes of the Space Age: Women Who Took Humanity to the Stars - Rod Pyle
• Dyslexia: A Very Short Introduction - Margaret J. Snowling
• Extinction: A Very Short Introduction - Paul Wignall

 

v29(4) 2019.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Mobile Hack: It pays to be well informed (1-page PDF short story) - Zack Lux
  You really (really!) need to look after that which looks after you...
  (If you like this story then you can support promulgating the author's work by re-Tweeting.)
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v29(3) 2019.4.25 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2019

• Newscast for the Summer 2019 (which, for clarification, relates to the northern hemisphere and the academic year 'spring'). This includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• Graham Connor – A life in Science Fiction & Space
• Sanity Blues: Science Needs to be Honest - Graham Connor (a re-post from 1998 in memory of Graham - its message still stands today!)
• My Top Ten Scientists – Eric Choi (aerospace engineer and SF author)
• 2018/19 (12 months to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 1 (re-posting with trailers freshly check-linked) - Tony Chester
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted
• Gaia 2019 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v29(3) 2019.4.25 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Sunfall - Jim Al-Khalili
• Doctor Who: Scratchman - Tom Baker & James Goss
• The Hod King - Josiah Bancroft
• Stone Clock - Andrew Bannister
• The Caged Queen - Kristen Ciccarelli
• The Sands of Mars - Arthur C. Clarke
• Splintered Suns - Michael Cobley
• Doctor Who: The Good Doctor - Juno Dawson
• The Blue Salt Road - Joanne M. Harris
• Vivat Regina - Maz Hedgehog
• Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (2nd review) - Darryl Jones (ed)
• The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
• Broken Stars - Ken Liu (ed.)
• Ghost Virus - Graham Masterton
• Doctor Who: Molten Heart - Una McCormack
• Star Wars: Last Shot - Daniel José Older
• All The Lonely People - David Owen
• Shadow Captain - Alastair Reynolds
• Winter World - A. G. Riddle
• Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Skyward - Brandon Sanderson
• Ocean Light - Nalini Singh
• Doctor Who: The Secret Vault - David Solomons
• The Labyrinth Index - Charles Stross
• Rosewater - Tade Thompson
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution - Peter Watts
• Emily Eternal - M. G. Wheaton

v29(3) 2019.4.25 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• TARDIS: Type 40 Instruction Manual - Atkinson et al
• The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, robotics and the future of work - Richard Baldwin
• Making Eden: How plants transformed a barren planet - David Beerling
• C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction - James Como
• A Supernatural War - Owen Davies
• Biometrics: A Very Short Introduction - Michael Fairhurst
• At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life - Guy P. Harrison
• Columbus in Space - Julien Harrod & ESA
• Sleeping with the Lights On (2nd review) - Darryl Jones
• Climate Change and the Health of Nations - Anthony J. McMichael et al
• The Cosmic Mystery Tour: A high-speed journey through space & time - Nicholas Mee
• Interplanetary Robots: True stories of space exploration - Rod Pyle

 

v29(2) 2019.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Preprint: Time to Publish (1-page PDF short story) - J. W. Armstrong
  Discovering the true nature of time -- fundamental to reality -- is something that might not want to be shared...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v29(1) 2019.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2019

• Newscast for the Spring 2019 (which, for clarification, relates to the northern hemisphere and the academic year 'spring'). This includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Julie E. Czerneda (biologist and SF author)
• San Jose - The 2018 World SF Convention – Peter Tyers
• Windycon 45 - Chicago regional convention – Sue Burke
• 29th Festival of Fantastic Films 2018 - Great Britain – Darrel Buxton
• British Fantasycon 2018 – Ian Hunter
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary
• Best Science Fiction of Past Years - Possibly? – Newly created archive page (This last is because in recent years, in our spring news for fun, we give our suggestions as to the best SF/F/H novels and films of the previous year.  All well and good.  Yet, though it is only -- we stress -- a bit of fun, invariably nearly every year we cite a work or two that goes on to be short-listed and/or win a major SFaward.  So we thought it about time we collected these in one place with a note at the foot of each year's entry as to which went on to garner a major award.)

v29(1) 2019.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Amercia City (2nd review) - Chris Beckett
• Adrift - Rob Boffard
• Brief Cases: Stories from the Dresden files - Jim Butcher
• Kindred - Octavia Butler
• Sea of Rust - Robert Cargill
• Everything About You - Heather Child
• The Cathedral of the Known Things - Edward Cox
• The Watcher of Dead Time - Edward Cox
• Rejoice - Steven Erikson
• Doctor Who and the Kricket Men - Douglas Adams & James Goss
• The Quanderhorn Xperimentations - Rob Grant & Andrew Marshall
• Time’s Convert - Deborah Harkness
• The Minds of Billy Milligan - Daniel Keyes
• The Wall - John Lanchester
• Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu
• 84K - Claire North
• From Darkest Skies - Sam Peters
• The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
• Summerland - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis - Anne Rice
• Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat - Anne Rice
• By the Pricking of Her Thumbs - Adam Roberts
• Snapshot - Brandon Sanderson
• Oathbringer - Lynsay Sands
• Dreadful Company - Vivian Shaw
• The Bastard Legion: Friendly Fire - Gavin Smith
• The Gone World - Tom Sweterlitsch
• Hunted - G. X. Todd
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 - Jane Yolen (ed.)
• Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances - Timothy Zahn

v29(1) 2019.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Quantum Space - Jim Baggott
• Artificial Intelligence... 'A Very Short Introduction' - Margaret A. Boden
• Inside Black Mirror - Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones
• How Population Change will Transform our World - Sarah Harper
• Sleeping With The Lights On: The unsettling story of horror - Darryl Jones
• Wicked Mortals - Aaron Mahnke
• The AI Delusion - Gary Smith
• What Shape is Space?: A primer for the 21st century - Giles Sparrow

 

v28(7) 2018.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Sparrowfall: The city never sleeps (1-page PDF short story) - Robert Dawson
  The AI keeps the city immaculate. But does everyone -- even the person that created it -- appreciate it?
   
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v28(6) 2018.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Life, Hacked: Out For A Duck (1-page PDF short story) - Krystal Claxton
  So how do you know you are real, and not a copy of the real you in a copy-verse? Ask a duck.
   

 

v28(5) 2018.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2018

• Newscast for the Autumn 2018. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists - Sam Peters (mathematician and SF author)
• Follycon - The 2018 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• Conclave III - New Zealand's 2018 national convention – Lee Murray (with an assist from Simon Litten)
• Wanted, SF authors who are scientists!

v28(5) 2018.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Tangled Lands - Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
• Arm of the Sphinx - Josiah Bancroft
• Blood of Assassins - R. J. Barker
• Raft - Stephen Baxter
• Spring Tide - Chris Beckett
• Zero Day - Ezekiel Boone
• Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor - Susan Calman et al
• The Defiant Heir - Melissa Caruso
• Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion - Jenny T. Colgan
• Doctor Who: Twice Upon A Time - Paul Cornell
• Doctor Who: Rose - Russell T. Davies
• The Grey Bastards - Jonathan French
• Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
• The Testament of Loki - Joanne M. Harris
• The Smoke - Simon Ings
• The Fall of Deadworld – Book I - Kek-W & Dave Kendall
• The Night Lies Bleeding - M. D. Lachlan
• Nemesis - Alex Lamb
• A Talent for War - Jack McDevitt
• The City and the City - China Mieville
• Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller
• Into the Fire - Elizabeth Moon
• One Way - S. J. Morden
• After Atlas - Emma Newman
• Before Mars - Emma Newman
• Planetfall - Emma Newman
• Humans, Bow Down - James Patterson & Emily Raymond
• The Store - James Patterson
• The Complete Fairy Tales - Charles Perrault
• From Distant Stars - Sam Peters
• Slow Bullets (2nd review) - Alastair Reynolds
• The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi
• Head On - John Scalzi
• Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles - Cavan Scott et al
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg
• Hunted - G. X. Todd
• Assassins’ Legacy - Ian Watson & Andy West
• The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn - Tyler Whitesides
• The Bitter Twins - Jen Williams
• Last Year - Robert Charles Wilson
• Judge Dredd / Anderson: The Deep End - Arthur Wyatt et al

v28(5) 2018.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Demography: A Very Short Introduction - Susan Harper
• Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays 1972–2004 - Ursula K. Le Guin
• One of Ten Billion Earths: How we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets - Karel Schrivner
• Geology… A Very Short Introduction - Jan Zalasiewicz

 

v28(4) 2018.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Legs-11 - Hugh Cartwright
  Meet the home help.  It's new and you get a free trial.  So what's not to like?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v28(3) 2018.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2018

• Newscast for the Summer 2018. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists - Peter Watts (biologist and SF author)
• 2017/18 (12 months to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Follycon - The 2018 British Eastercon - Arthur Chappell
• Gaia 2018 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v28(3) 2018.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Lawless: Welcome to Badrock - Dan Abnett & Phil Winslade
• Star Wars’ Canto Bight - Saladin Ahmed et al
• Senlin Ascends - Josiah Bancroft
• Places in the Darkness - Chris Brookmyre
• The Tethered Mage - Melissa Caruso
• The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Philip K. Dick
• Doctor Who and the Kricket Men - James Goss
• Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant
• You Should Come With Me Now - M. John Harrison
• Strange Weather - Joe Hill
• Strange Weather (2nd review) - Joe Hill
• The Dragon Lords: False Idols - Jon Hollins
• Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics – Part 3 - Dean Mullaney (ed.)
• Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer
• Too Like the Lightning (2nd review) - Ada Palmer
• The Will to Battle - Ada Palmer
• Elysium Fire - Alastair Reynolds
• Revenger (3rd review) - Alastair Reynolds
• Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
• The Eternity War: Pariah - Jamie Sawyer
• The Bastard Legion - Gavin Smith
• Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View - Various authors
• The Genius Plague - David Walton

v28(3) 2018.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Conjuring the Universe: The origins of the laws of nature - Peter Atkins
• Mass: The Quest to Understand Matter from Greek Atoms to Quantum Fields - Jim Baggott
• Blockbuster Science: The Real Science in Science Fiction - David Siegel Bernstein
• Heroes & Villains: A photographic odyssey into the fantastic world of cosplay - Andrew Boyle
• Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think - Elaine H. Ecklund & Christopher P. Scheitle
• Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction - Erle C. Ellis
• Doctor Who: The Book of Whoniversal Records - Simon Guerrier
• Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium - Walter S. Judd & Graham A. Judd
• Terry Pratchett Discworld Imaginarium - Paul Kidby
• Monstrous Creatures - Aaron Mahnke
• Miracles: A Very Short Introduction - Yujin Nagasawa
• Explorations of the Marvellous - Peter Nicholls (ed.) (In memoriam)

 

v28(2) 2018.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• I Die A Little - Bo Balder
  Sometimes it is impossible to stay on a new planet no matter how much our children like it.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v28(1) 2018.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2018

• Newscast for the Spring 2018. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists - Andrew Bannister
• SF Conventions Across Europe - Roberto Quaglia
• Helsinki – The 2017 World SF Convention - Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon 2017 - Ian Hunter
• 28th Festival of Fantastic Films 2017 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• The 2017 Hispacon – Spain - Cristina Jurado
• The 2017 Celsius 232 – Spain - Peter Tyers
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted

v28(1) 2018.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Furthest Station - Ben Aaronovitch
• The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch
• Iron Gods - Andrew Bannister
• Age of Assassins - R. J. Barker
• America City - Chris Beckett
• Raising Fire - James Bennett
• Successor's Promise - Trudi Canavan
• Sea of Rust - C. Robert Cargill
• The Last Namsara - Kristen Ciccarelli
• Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
• Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Nightvale Episodes Volume 1 - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
• The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe Welcome to Nightvale Episodes Volume 2 - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
• Star Wars: Battlefront II – Inferno Squad - Christie Golden
• Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse - James Goss
• Runemarks - Joanne Harris
• The Fireman - Joe Hill
• The Fatal Gate - Ian Irvine
• Infernal Machines - John Hornor Jacobs
• Provenance - Anne Leckie
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Wandering Earth - Cixin Liu
• The Wall of Storms - Ken Liu
• Star Wars: A New Hope - George Lucas
• Star Wars Trilogy - George Lucas
• The Corporation Wars: Emergence - Ken MacLeod
• Blackwing - Ed McDonald
• Doctor Who: Plague City - Jonathan Morris
• Too Like the Lightening - Ada Palmer
• The Dark Net - Benjamin Percy
• From Darkest Skies - Sam Peters
• The Death House - Sarah Pinborough
• The Gradual - Christopher Priest
• The Castle in Cassiopeia - Mike Resnick
• Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
• Slow Bullets - Alastair Reynolds
• The Core of the Sun - Johanna Sinisalo
• The Delirium Brief - Charles Stross
• The Doomed City - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• Artemis - Andy Weir
• The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells
• Crosstalk - Connie Willis
• The Feed - Nick Clark Windo
• Doorways in the Sand - Roger Zelazny

v28(1) 2018.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction - Susan Blackmore
• A Concise Guide to Communication in Science and Engineering - David H. Foster
• Big Data: A Very Short Introduction - Dawn E. Holmes
• Quantum Physics: What everyone needs to know - Michael G. Raymer
• Beeronomics: How beer explains the world - Johan Swinnen & Devin Briski

 

v27(7) 2017.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Fourth Law of Humanics - Ian Stewart
  What of Asimov's Laws once the robots have won...?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v27(6) 2017.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Department of Correction - Ninan Tan
  Offender, Mr Smith, turns up for a medical procedure. A lesson has to be learned.

 

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2017

• Newscast for the Autumn 2017. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists - Paul McAuley
• Understanding Polish SF conventions - Marcin 'Alqua' Klak
• Eurocon 2017 – Dortmund, Germany - Jim Walker
• Lexicon - New Zealand's 2017 national convention - Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts and Darian Smith
• Innominate - The 2017 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• Innominate - The 2017 British Eastercon - Arthur Chappell

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Sharp Ends - Joe Abercrombie
• Iron Gods - Andrew Bannister
• Creation Machine (2nd review) - Andrew Bannister
• The Waking Land - Callie Bates
• Xeelee Vengeance - Stephen Baxter
• Skitter - Ezekiel Boone
• Firebrand - Kirsten Britain
• Fierce Gods - Col Buchanan
• The Boy on the Bridge - M. R. Carey
• Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls - Michael Carroll et al
• The House of Binding Thorns - Aliette de Bodard
• Walkaway - Cory Doctorow
• Fall of Light - Steven Erikson
• The Remnant - Charlie Fletcher
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Alexander Freed
• Rhyming Rings - David Gemmell
• The Immortal Throne - Stella Gemmell
• Neuromancer (New edition) - William Gibson
• Ararat - Christopher Golden
• Freeks - Amanda Hocking
• Collected Ghost Stories (2nd review) - M. R. James (Darryl Jones ed.)
• The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson
• Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
• Invisible Planets - Ken Liu (ed.)
• The Corporation Wars: Insurgence - Ken MacLeod
• Austral - Paul McAuley
• Into Everywhere (2nd review) - Paul McAuley
• Sins of Empire - Brian McClellan
• Luna: Wolf Moon - Ian McDonald
• Cold Welcome - Elizabeth Moon
• The Complete Skizz - Alan Moore & Jim Baikie
• New York 2140 - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Immortal Unchained - Lynsay Sands
• Dark Made Dawn - J. P. Smythe
• The Bear and the Serpent - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 14 - John Wagner & Carlos Ezequerra et al
• The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
• The Shape of Things to Come (New edition) - H. G. Wells
• War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
• Where the Late Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
• The Ninth Rain - Jen Williams
• The Affinities - Robert Charles Wilson
• Star Wars: Thrawn - Timothy Zahn

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History - David Beerling
• Living With the Living Dead: The wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse - Greg Garrett
• We Know All About You: The story of surveillance in Britain and America - Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
• Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight - Rod Pyle
• Before Time Began: The Big Bang & the Emerging Universe - Helmut Satz
• Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where real science end and pseudoscience begins - Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins

 

v27(4) 2017.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Memory Ward - Wendy Nikel
  Lisa is saving her memories before she loses them to dementia. And then, playing an old one back, she discovers...

 

v27(3) 2017.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2017

• Newscast for the Summer 2017. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists - Ian Stewart
• Eurocon 2016 – Barcelona, Spain - Jim Walker
• The 2000AD 40th Anniversary Event - Anthony Heathcote
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 3: The Space Age (1960-'69) - Tony Chester
• 2016/17 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2017 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v27(3) 2017.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch
• Class: Joyride - Guy Adams
• The Massacre of Mankind - Stephen Baxter
• The Massacre of Mankind (2nd review) - Stephen Baxter
• Obelisk - Stephen Baxter
• Take Back the Sky - Greg Bear
• Class: The Stone House - A. K. Benedict
• The Day Before Forever - Anna Caltabiano
• Fellside (2nd review) - M. R. Carey
• Babylon's Ashes - James S. A. Corey
• Arthur Conan Doyle: Gothic Tales - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The X Files Origins: Agent of Chaos - Kami Garcia
• Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You - James Goss
• Star Wars: Bloodline - Claudia Gray
• Star Wars: Catalyst - James Lucenoh
• Doctor Who – The Whoniverse - George Mann & Justin Richards
• Void Star - Zachary Mason
• The X Files Origins: Devil's Advocate - Jonathan Mayberry
• Down Station - Simon Morden
• The White City - Simon Morden
• Arcanum Unbounded - Brandon Sanderson
• Arcanum Unbounded (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
• Defender - G. X. Todd
• The Liberation - Ian Tregillis
• Judge Dredd The Mega Collection: Mean Machine - Wagner et al
• The Guns of Empire - Django Wexler
• Pelquin’s Comet - Ian Whates
• Doctor Who and the Crusaders - David Whitaker
• The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

v27(3) 2017.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft & Magic - Owen Davies (ed.)
• The Extended Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Einstein at Home - Friedrich Herneck
• Artificial Intelligence: What everyone needs to know - Jerry Kaplan
• The Science of the Game of Thrones - Helen Keen
• Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction - Philippa Levine
• The Oxford Dictionary of Science - Oxford University Press
• True Genius: The Life and Work of Richard Garwin - Joel N. Shurkin
• Infinity: A Very Short Introduction - Ian Stewart
• Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction - Siva Vaidhyanathan

 

v27(2) 2017.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Ghosts in the Machine - Aaron Moskalik
  Can you prove that you are alive? Really prove that you are alive? Administration may want to know...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v27(1) 2017.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2017

• Newscast for the Spring 2017. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science.  See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Tony Ballantyne
• 27th Festival of Fantastic Films 2016 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• British Fantasycon 2016 - Ian Hunter
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v27(1) 2017.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Second Lives (2nd review) - Scott K. Andrews
• Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song edited - Anonymous
• War Factory - Neal Asher
• Heart of Granite: Blood and Fire - James Barclay
• Heart of Granite: Blood and Fire (2nd review) - James Barclay
• Daughter of Eden - Chris Beckett
• The Hatching - Ezekiel Boone
• Fellside - M. R. Carey
• The Girl with all the Gifts - M. R. Carey
• Dominion: The Chronicle of the Invaders - John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard
• Who Killed Sherlock Holmes - Paul Cornell
• The Watcher of Dead Time - Edward Cox
• Poison City - Paul Crilley
• The Augur’s Gambit - Stephen Donaldson
• The King’s Justice - Stephen Donaldson
• Survival Game - Gary Gibson
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• The Dragon Lords: Fool’s Gold - Jon Hollins
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2nd review) - Mercedes Lackey (ed.)
• The Sixth Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
• South - Frank Owen
• Typescript of the Second Origin - Manuel de Pedrolo
• Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
• The Long Cosmos (2nd review) - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Gradual - Christopher Priest
• The Gradual (2nd review) - Christopher Priest
• The End of All Things - John Scalzi
• The World Raven - A. J. Smith
• Doctor Who and the Zarbi - Bill Strutton
• Hunters and Collectors - M. Suddain
• Find Me - Laura van den Berg
• The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
• Doctor Who: In an exciting adventure with the Daleks - David Whitaker

v27(1) 2017.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick - Kyle Arnold
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook - Joanna Farrow
• Oxygen: The molecule that made the world - Nick Lane
• The Call of the Primes: Surprising patterns, peculiar puzzles and other marvels of mathematics - O'Shea

 

v26(7) 2016.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Single Layer I. T.: A collective celebration - William R. D. Wood
  It is the countdown to the end of the year and the dawn of a new one. Happy New Year everyone. 'Five', 'four', 'three'...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v26(6) 2016.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Memory of Trees - Lynette Mejía
  One of the first things to go in a fated world may well be the last thing its people really needs... Art!

 

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2016

• Newscast for the Autumn 2016. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• Spanish Science Fiction - Alejandro Mohorte Medina & José Nieto
• Au Contraire 3 – New Zealand's 2016 national convention - Maree Pavletich
• Mancunicon – The 2016 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• ConCarolinas 2016 – A regional USA con - Peter Tyers

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Second Lives - Scott K. Andrews
• Timebomb - Scott K. Andrews
• Creation Machine - Andrew Bannister
• The Scarlet Gospels - Clive Barker
• The Medusa Chronicles - Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
• Tracer - Rob Boffard
• Morning Star - Pierce Brown
• Doctor Who: In the Blood - Jenny T. Colgan
• The Tourist - Robert Dickinson
• Doctor Who: City of Death - James Goss
• Underground - S. L. Grey
• Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
• Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• The Summon Stone - Ian Irvine
• Children of Earth and Sky - Guy Gavriel Kay
• Star Wars: Lords of the Sith - Paul S. Kemp
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 - Mercedes Lackey (ed.)
• Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
• The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu
• The Paper Menagerie (2nd review) - Ken Liu
• The Corporation Wars: Dissidence - Ken MacLeod
• Into Everywhere - Paul McAuley
• Bite - K. S. Merbeth
• Reality by Other Means - James Morrow
• The Book of Phoenix (2nd review) - Nnedi Okorafor
• Those Above - Daniel Polansky
• The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
• The Fallen - Tarn Richardson
• Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Calamity - Brandon Sanderson
• Long Dark Dusk - J. P. Smythe
• Long Dark Dusk (2nd review) - J. P. Smythe
• Way Down Dark (2nd review) - J. P. Smythe
• Extinction - Kazuaki Takano
• Judge Dredd Classics: The Dark Judges - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: The Life and Crimes of P. J. Maybe- John Wagner et al
• Rig - Jon Wallace
• The 1000 Year Reich - Ian Watson
• The Great Science Fiction - H. G. Wells
• The Book of the New Sun Vol. 1: Shadow and Claw - Gene Wolfe
• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth - Robin Hanson
• How Population Change will Transform our World - Sarah Harper
• Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension - Michio Kaku
• The Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction - Samir Okasha
• Doctor Who: 365 days of memorable moments and impossible things (2nd review) - Justin Richards

 

v26(4) 2016.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Grains of Wheat: A lesson learned by Alex Shvartsman
  Best not to upset those (including your relatives) on your way up as you may need them on the way down...

 

v26(3) 2016.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2016

• Newscast for the Summer 2016. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• German SF Since 1945 - Dirk van den Boom
• Sasquan – The 2015 World SF Convention - Peter Tyers
• 2015/16 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2016 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v26(3) 2016.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Dreamland (2nd review) - Robert L. Anderson
• Starbound - Dave Bara
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 - Greg Bear (ed.)
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2nd review) - Greg Bear (ed.)
• Armada - Ernest Cline
• Nova - Samuel R. Delany
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Alan Dean Foster
• Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company - Alexander Freed
• Dead Ringers - Christopher Golden
• Doctor Who: The Legends of Ashildr - James Goss et al
• Speak - Louisa Hall
• Visitor’s Book - Sophie Hannah
• Starborn - Lucy Hounsom
• Doctor Who: The Drosten’s Curse (2nd review) - A. L. Kennedy
• The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
• The Monk - Matthew Lewis
• Thunderbird - Jack McDevitt
• Luna - Ian McDonald
• The Night Clock - Paul Meloy
• Slade House - David Mitchell
• Lost Girl - Adam Nevill
• Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School - Kim Newman
• The Boy Who Wept Blood - Den Patrick
• Earthquake Weather - Tim Powers
• Bête - Adam Roberts
• The Thing Itself - Adam Roberts
• The Thing Itself (2nd review) - Adam Roberts
• Firefight (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• The Human Division - John Scalzi
• Zoe's Tale - John Scalzi
• Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha – Dogs of War - John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
• The Philosopher Kings - Jo Walton
• The Silver Tide - Jen Williams

v26(3) 2016.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation - Jim Baggott
• Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction - Katherine Blundell
• Good Thinking: What you need to know to be smarter, safer, wealthier and wiser - Guy P. Harrison
• Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary - Wesley A. Kort
• Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds: A 50-year treasury of art and design - Stephen Nicholas & Mike Tucker
• Doctor Who: 365 days of memorable moments and impossible things - Justin Richards
• Moons: A Very Short Introduction - David A. Rothery
• The Astronomer & The Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother - Ulinka Rublack

 

v26(2) 2016.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Asymmetrical Warfare: So you want to be a star? by S. R. Algernon Hugo nominated 2016
  If you really are set on invading the Earth, then be advised: it may not be quite as easy as you think!
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v26(1) 2016.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2016

• Newscast for the Spring 2016. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• The Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form: Is it really recognising the breadth of SF achievement? - Jonathan Cowie
• British Fantasycon 2015 - Ian Hunter
• The 2015 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• 26th Festival of Fantastic Films 2015 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• ConFuse – The 2015 Swecon - Karl-Johan Norén
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v26(1) 2016.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• A Few Words for the Dead - Guy Adams
• Dreamland - Robert L. Anderson
• Tales from the Vatican's Vault - David V. Barrett
• Dr Who: Deep Time - Trevor Baxendale
• Xeelee Endurance - Stephen Baxter
• Killing Titan - Greg Bear
• Dark Run - Mike Brooks
• The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2nd review) - Becky Chambers
• Night Music: Nocturnes Volume 2 - John Connolly
• Edge of Dark - Brenda Cooper
• The Relic Guild - Edward Cox
• Humpty Dumpty in Oakland - Philip K. Dick
• Willful Child - Steven Erikson
• Grendel - John Gardner
• The Tin Men - Christopher Golden
• Dead Ice - Laurell K. Hamilton
• Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton
• Star Wars: Lords of the Sith - Paul S. Kemp
• Doctor Who: The Drosten’s Curse - A. L. Kennedy
• Roboteer - Alex Lamb
• The Hunter’s Kind - Rebecca Levene
• The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
• The Gracekeepers - Kirsty Logan
• Dr Who: Royal Blood - Una McCormack
• The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
• The Dead Lands - Benjamin Percy
• Doctor Who: The Time Lord Letters - Justin Richards
• Dr Who: Big Bang Generation - Gary Russell
• Lie of the Land - Michael F. Russell
• Lock In - John Scalzi
• The Sky Pirates - Leisel Schwarz
• Way Down Dark - J. P. Smythe
• Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Night Lamp - Jack Vance
• Supersymmetry - David Walton
• Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

v26(1) 2016.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Biocode: The new age of genomics - Dawn Field & Neil Davies
• Thunderbirds: The Vault - Marcus Hearn
• A Very Short Introduction to Corruption - Leslie Holmes
• C. S. Lewis and his Circle - Roger White, Judith Wolfe & Brendan N. Wolfe
• The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales - Jack Zipes (ed.)

 

v25(7) 2015.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Reversal of Misfortune: Alternative culture by J. W. Armstrong
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Being able to see all your alternative quantum options may not be as welcome as you might think... Or is it?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v25(6) 2015.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• When The Music Ends: Criminal records by Philip Ball
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Seeking perfection in music can only lead to catastrophe...

 

v25(5) 2015.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2015

• Newscast for the Autumn 2015. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• Science Fiction Club Deutschland - 60th anniversary retrospective - Thomas Recktenwald
• How Might the World End? 200 years on from penning Frankenstein - Ted Nield
• Eurocon 1 – The First Eurocon in 1972 - Dave Rowe
• Archipelacon: A Scandinavian convention through Swedish eyes - Karl-Johan Norén
• Archipelacon: A Scandinavian convention through British eyes - Peter Tyers

v25(5) 2015.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher
• Impulse - Dave Bara
• Mother of Eden (2nd review) - Chris Beckett
• Mirror Sight - Kristen Britain
• Queen of the Dark Things - C. Robert Cargill
• The Vorrh - B. Catling
• Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves - James S. A. Corey
• The Doll Collection - Ellen Datlow
• The Gerry Anderson Comic Collection - Sam Denham
• Bill the Galactic Hero - Harry Harrison
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
• Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
• Wolfhound Century - Peter Higgins
• Dark Touch - Debbie Johnson
• Wake - Elizabeth Knox
• The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Old Man’s Ghosts - Tom Lloyd
• Windhaven - George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
• The Whispering Swarm - Michael Moorcock
• The Vagrant - Peter Newman
• Victorian Fairy Tales - Michael Newton (ed.)
• Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep - Peter Oberg (ed.)
• The Book of Phoenix - Nnedi Okorafor
• The Long Utopia - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Causal Angel - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Glorious Angels - Justina Robson
• Firefight - Brandon Sanderson
• Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley - Robert Sheckley
• A Kill in the Morning - Graeme Shimmin
• A Quantum Mythology - Gavin Smith
• Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
• Hard to be a God - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• Tamaruq - E. J. Swift
• Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• A Man Lies Dreaming - Lavie Tidhar
• The Mechanical - Ian Tregilis
• The Boy Who Lost Fairyland - Catherynne M. Valente
• Dark Justice - John Wagner & Greg Staples
• Barricade - Jon Wallace
• Steeple - Jon Wallace
• Superposition - David Walton
• My Real Children - Jo Walton
• Superposition - David Walton
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• Sleeping Late on Judgement Day - Tad Williams

v25(5) 2015.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race - Daniel J. Fairbanks
• The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who - Simon Guerrier & Marek Kukula
• Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain - Melanie Keene
• Ebola: An evolving story - James Lyons-Weiler
• Myth: A Very Short Introduction - Robert A. Segal
• Privacy: A Very Short Introduction - Raymond Wacks

 

v25(4) 2015.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of remembrance by Paul Currion
  Short Story (1 page PDF). In the not-too-distant future we will be more humane when it comes to criminal punishment... Won't we?

 

v25(3) 2015.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2015

• Newscast for the Summer 2015. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
• Loncon 3 – The 2014 SF Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 2: The Golden Age (1950-59) - Tony Chester
• 2014/15 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted
• Gaia 2015 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v25(3) 2015.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Brian Aldiss Collection – The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s - Brian Aldiss
• The Secrets of Blood and Bone - Rebecca Alexander
• The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
• War Dogs - Greg Bear
• Mother of Eden - Chris Beckett
• Empire - John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard
• Empires: Extraction - Gavin Deas
• Empires: Infiltration - Gavin Deas
• Symbiont: Parasitology 2 - Mira Grant
• Horns - Joe Hill
• NOS4R2 - Joe Hill
• Sand - Hugh Howey
• Zombie Apocalypse! Endgame - Stephen Jones (ed)
• Revival - Stephen King
• Something Coming Through - Paul McAuley
• The Wolves of London - Mark Morris
• An English Ghost Story - Kim Newman
• Retribution - Mark Charan Newton
• Breakfast with the Borgias - D. B. C. Pierre
• On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
• Poseidon's Wake - Alastair Reynolds
• The Blood Red City - Justin Richards
• The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
• Originator - Joel Shepherd
• The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
• The Book of the New Sun – Vol. 1: Shadow and Claw - Gene Wolfe

v25(3) 2015.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Living With The Stars: How the human body is connected with the life cycles of the Earth, the planets and the stars - Karel Schrijver & Iris Schrijver
• Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth - Keith Veronese
• Once Upon A Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale - Marina Warner

 

v25(2) 2015.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Investments by Simon Kewin
  Short Story (1 page PDF). There's been a lot of investment in humanity. Now it's time for a bit of corporate rationalisation and tough choices for the chief executive of Blue Planet Holdings...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted.

 

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2015

• Newscast for the Spring 2015. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
• Eurocon 2014 – Dublin, Ireland (2nd review) - Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon 2014 - Ian Hunter
• 25th Festival of Fantastic Films 2014 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• Utopiales 2014 – France - Jim Walker
• The 2014 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Nearly Definitive Edition - Douglas Adams
• Cairo - Louis Armand
• Pebble in the Sky - Isaac Asimov
• The Incarnation - Susan Barker
• Ultima - Stephen Baxter
• Broken Monsters - Lauren Beukes
• Skin Game: The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
• The Severed Streets - Paul Cornell
• The Relic Guild - Edward Cox
• Elite Dangerous: Wanted - Gavin Deas
• Elite: Docking is Difficult - Gideon Defoe
• Tinder - Sally Gardner
• Extinction Game - Gary Gibson
• The Revolutions - Felix Gilman
• The Abyss Beyond Dreams - Peter F. Hamilton
• Kill Baxter - Charlie Human
• Emporium Stories - Adam Johnson
• Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson - Darryl Jones (ed)
• The House of the Four Winds - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
• Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
• The Three - Sarah Lotz
• Coming Home - Jack McDevitt
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories - Mark Morris (ed)
• Murder - Sara Pinborough
• The Long Mars (2nd review) - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Fortress in Orion - Mike Resnick
• Elite: Nemorensis - Simon Spurrier
• Shadows of the Apt: Book Ten – Seal of the Worm - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Traitor's Heir - Anna Thayer
• Predator vs. Judge Dredd vs. Aliens - John Wagner et al
• The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures - Sean Wallace (ed)
• Firefall (Echopraxia) - Peter Watts

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• A Lifetime In The Building: The Extraordinary Story of May Savidge - Christine Adams
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield
• A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction - Terry Pratchett
• Curiosity: An Inside Look at the Mars Rover Mission - Rod Pyle
• The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Jem Roberts
• What Makes This Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Jo Walton
• Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets - Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams

 

v24(7) 2014.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• First Foot by Deborah Walker
  Short Story (1 page PDF). It's the season to be jolly, and there are traditions that we must adhere to through to new year lest we incur displeasure...
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v24(6) 2014.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Quis Custodiet by Brian Clegg
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The world is ruled by a caring AI. It is a perfect dictatorship, isn't it?

 

v24(5) 2014.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2014

• Newscast for the Autumn 2014. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
• My 25 years of Eurocons and the European Science Fiction Society - Roberto Quaglia
• Eurocon 2014 – Dublin, Ireland - Jim Walker
• Satellite 4 – The 2014 British Eastercon - Ian Hunter

v24(5) 2014.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Jupiter War - Neal Asher
• Terminus - Adam Baker
• Kindred - Octavia Butler
• Black Moon - Kenneth Calhoun
• Cell - Roger Cook
• Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Al Ewing et al
• Asterix and the Picts - Jean-Yves Ferri & Didier Conrad
• The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
• The City - Stella Gemmell
• Apocalypse Now Now - Charlie Human
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 - Kij Johnson (ed)
• Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi – Into the Void - Tim Lebbon
• Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
• Cauldron - Jack McDevitt
• Empress of the Sun: Everness Book III - Ian McDonald
• Defenders - Will McIntosh
• Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales - Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt (editors)
• Lagoon - Nnedi Okorarafor
• The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Long Mars - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Forever Watch - David Ramirez
• Rebecca Newton and the Sacred Flame - Mario Routi
• Operation Shield - Joel Shepherd
• Fiend (2nd review) - Peter Stenson
• Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Thomas Sweterlitsch
• The Voices - F. R. Tallis
• The Violent Century - Lavie Tidhar
• Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos – End Game - John Wagner et al
• The World According to Spiderman - Daniel Wallace & Mirco Pierfederici
• The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells
• Vortex - Robert Charles Wilson
• The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

v24(5) 2014.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Life On Air - David Attenborough
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers and Strategies - Nick Bostrom
• The Chemistry of Alchemy - Cathy Cobb, Monty Fetterolf & Harold Goldwhite
• The Knowledge: How to re-build our world from scratch - Lewis Dartnell
• The Little Book of Chocolat: Fifty recipes celebrating the bestselling novel Chocolat - Joanne Harris
• Mental Biology: The new science of how the brain and mind meet - W. R. Klemm
• It Started With Copernicus: Vital Questions About Science - Keith Parsons

 

v24(4) 2014.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Front Line by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Holding the line against a relentless, unstoppable alien invasion of the Solar system is not what you might expect.  Time for a stiff gin...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

 

v24(3) 2014.4.30 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2014

• Newscast for the Summer 2014. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
• Anglo-Romanian Science & Science Fiction Cultural Exchange Re-visited
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 1 - Tony Chester
• 2013/14 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2014 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v24(3) 2014.4.30 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Jupiter War - Neal Asher
• The Silence of Ghosts - Jonathan Aycliffe
• Exit Kingdom - Alden Bell
• Arctic Rising - Tobias S. Buckell
• Black Moon - Kenneth Calhoun
• Conquest - John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard
• The Troop - Nick Cutter
• The Arrows of Time: Orthogonal Book 3 - Greg Egan
• The Devil Delivered and Other Tales - Steven Erikson
• Fortunately the Milk - Neil Gaiman
• Snowblind - Christopher Golden
• Snowblind (2nd review) - Christopher Golden
• Parasite: Parasitology 1 - Mira Grant
• An Apple for the Creature - Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner (eds)
• M. R. James: Collected Ghost Stories - Darryl Jones (ed)
• Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome - Stephen Jones (ed) and illustrations by Allan Lee
• Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome (2nd review) - Stephen Jones (ed) and illustrations by Allan Lee
• The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor – Part One - Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonasinga
• Rayguns Over Texas - Richard Klaw (ed)
• Descent - Ken MacLeod
• The Disestablishment of Paradise - Phillip Mann
• In Thunder Forged - Ari Marmell
• The Falconer - Elizabeth May
• Starhawk - Jack McDevitt
• Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard - Kim Newman
• Dodger's Guide to London - Terry Pratchett
• Dodger (2nd review) - Terry Pratchett
• Fiddlehead - Cherie Priest
• The Doctor and the Dinosaurs - Mike Resnick
• Doctor Who: Harvest of Time - Alastair Reynolds
• Steelheart (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• Limit - Frank Shatzing
• The Age of Scorpio - Gavin Smith
• The Guard - Peter Terrin
• The Woman in Black: The Sequel Angel of Death - Martyn Waites

v24(3) 2014.4.30 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Think: Why you should question everything - Guy P. Harrison
• The Delinquent Teenager: Who was mistaken for the world's top climate expert - Donna Laframboise
• The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms - Barry Parker

 

v24(2) 2014.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• For Your Information by Connor Powers-Smith
  Short Story (1 page PDF). In the future getting genetic data on a new prospective partner is all part of the dating process. But a little knowledge...

 

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2014

• Newscast for the Spring 2014. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
• LoneStarCon 3 – The 2013 SF Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• 2013 World Fantasy Convention, Great Britain - Ian Hunter
• The 2013 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• 24th Festival of Fantastic Films 2013 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
• Proxima - Stephen Baxter
• Terra - Mitch Benn
• Conquest - John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard
• The Diamond Deep - Brenda Cooper
• Abaddon's Gate - James S. Corey
• London Falling - Paul Cornell
• Marauder - Gary Gibson
• The Thousand Emperors - Gary Gibson
• NOS4R2 - Joe Hill
• Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - Jonathan L. Howard
• Chosen - Benedict Jacka
• The Year of the Ladybird - Graham Joyce
• Tuf Voyaging - George R. R. Martin
• A Stir of Echoes - Richard Matheson
• Be My Enemy: Everness Book II - Ian McDonald
• Love Minus Eighty - Will McIntosh
• Judge Dredd: Crusade & Frankenstein Division - Grant Morrison & Mark Millar et al
• House of Small Shadows - Adam Nevill
• Drakenfeld - Mark Charan Newton
• Charm - Sarah Pinborough
• The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Adjacent - Christopher Priest
• Stoker's Manuscript - Royce Prouty
• The Demi-Monde Fall - Rod Rees
• On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
• The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
• Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson
• Angel City - Jon Steele
• Fiend - Peter Stenson
• War Master’s Gate - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Sleep Room - F. R. Travis
• The Ace of Skulls - Chris Wooding

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature - David P. Barash
• Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction - David G. Catling
• The Oxford Guide to Plain English - Martin Cutts
• Beyond the God Particle - Leon Lederman & Christopher Hill

 

v23(7) 2013.12.20 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• If Only...   A Taste of your own Medicine by Tony Ballantyne
  Short Story (1 page PDF). So you don't want to have a vaccine? Fine, provided you have an evidence-based reason. Turn your back on science and science may turn its back on you...

 

v23(6) 2013.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• White lies by Grace Tang
  Short Story (1 page PDF). You can't cut corners with ground-breaking research, but sometimes white lies are required.

 

v23(5) 2013.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2013

• Newscast for the Autumn 2013. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
• II Celsius 232 – Avilés, Spain - Sue Burke
• Aelita 2013 – Yekaterinburg, Russia - Roberto Quaglia
• Eurocon 2013 – Kiev, Ukraine - Jim Walker

v23(5) 2013.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Red Country - Joe Abercrombie
• Countess Dracula - Guy Adams
• Finches of Mars - Brian Aldiss
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 - Catherine Asaro (ed.)
• Zero Point - Neal Asher
• Dark Eden - Chris Beckett
• Century 21: Classic Comic Strips From The Worlds of Gerry Anderson - Chris Bentley (ed.)
• The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Dreams and Shadows - Robert Cargill
• The Devil's Looking Glass - Mark Chadbourn
• London Falling - Paul Cornell
• Seoul Survivors - Naomi Foyle
• Angel Stations - Gary Gibson
• Empire of Light - Gary Gibson
• Nova War - Gary Gibson
• Stealing Light - Gary Gibson
• Heaven's War - David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt
• The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
• Horns - Joe Hill
• Rebellion: The Tainted Realm – Book 2 - Ian Irvine
• A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 - James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (ed.s)
• The Shambling Guide to New York City - Mur Lafferty
• The Best of All Possible Worlds - Karen Lord
• The New Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• Intrusion - Ken Macleod
• Evening's Empires - Paul McAuley
• Odyssey - Jack McDevitt
• To Hold Infinity - John Meaney
• Railsea - China Miéville
• The Curve of the Air - Simon Morden
• Poison - Sarah Pinborough
• The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• Dodger - Terry Pratchett
• Demi-Monde: Summer - Rod Rees
• The Only Good Dalek - Justin Richards & Mike Collins
• Adam Robots - Adam Roberts
• Jack Glass - Adam Roberts
• 2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson
• A Conspiracy of Alchemists - Leisel Schwarz
• Tales From Majipoor - Robert Silverberg
• The Air War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Your Brother's Blood - David Towsey
• Anarchy - James Treadwell
• The Last Grave - Debbie Viguie
• Judge Dredd: The Fourth Faction - John Wagner et al
• The Ten-Seconders - Rob Williams, Dom Reardon & Mark Harrison

v23(5) 2013.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Global Environments Through The Quaternary (2nd edition) - David E. Anderson, Andrew S. Goudie & Adrian G. Barker
• Writing the Science Fiction Film - Robert Grant
• The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction - Nick Groom
• Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science and How to Stop Global Warming - Robert Kunzig & Wallace Broecker
• Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction - Stephen Mumford
• Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics - Alfred S. Postmentier & Ingmar Lehmann
• Robotics: A Very Short Introduction - Alan Winfield

 

v23(4) 2013.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Squealer: Mouthpiece for a generation by Nathan Correll
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Following 'the Crash' much is lost. So no time for SFnal classics. It could be so Orwellian...

 

v23(3) 2013.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2013

• Newscast for the Summer 2013. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• 2012/13 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2013 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year (Updated)

v23(3) 2013.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Hunger - Melvin Burgess
• The Creative Fire - Brenda Cooper
• Gun Machine - Warren Ellis
• The Steam Mole - Dave Freer
• Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton
• A Red Sun Also Rises - Mark Hodder
• Society of Steam Book 3 – Power Under Pressure - Andrew P. Mayer
• The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore & Ian Gibson
• Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
• The Doctor and the Rough Rider - Mike Resnick
• Apollo’s Outcasts - Allen Steele
• Batman – Judge Dredd Collection - John Wagner et al
• Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Jonny Alpha - The Project - John Wagner & Carlos Ezequerra
• (Judge Dredd) The Taxidermist - John Wagner, Alan Grant et al
• The Emperor of All Things - Paul Witcover

v23(3) 2013.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy - Roger Luckhurst
• The Science of Discworld IV: Judgment Day - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

 

v23(2) 2013.1.30 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Invisible: The path to immortality by Joao Ramalho-Santos
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Having a scientific breakthrough, getting published and hence recognition, you might think was a path to immortality... Not any more... (This is one that may well resonate with our scientist regulars.)

 

v23(1) 2013.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2013

• Newscast for the Spring 2013. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• The 2012 Hispacon, Spain - Sue Burke
• 23rd Festival of Fantastic Films 2012 - Darrell Buxton
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v23(1) 2013.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovitch
• The House of Rumour - Jake Arnott
• The Hydrogen Sonata - Iain Banks
• Iron Winter – Northland: Book Three - Stephen Baxter
• Control Point - Myke Cole
• The Woman Who Died a Lot - Jasper Fforde
• Cuttlefish - Dave Freer
• Vampire Empire: The King Makers - Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
• Great North Road - Peter F. Hamilton
• Empty Space - M. John Harrison
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale - Graham Joyce
• 11.22.63 - Stephen King
• The Walking Dead – Rise of the Governor - Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga
• Stormdancer - Jay Kristoff
• Half Sick of Shadows - David Logan
• Dodger - Terry Pratchett
• The Fractal Prince - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Demi-Monde Spring - Rod Rees
• Dr Who: The Dalek Project - Richards
• The Complete Alcatraz - Brandon Sanderson
• Redshirts - John Scalzi
• Apollo’s Outcasts - Allen Steele,
• Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges - John Wagner, Aland Grant, Brian Bolland et al
• Judge Dredd: America - John Wagner & Collin MacNeil 's
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
• The Dirty Steps of Heaven - Tad Williams
• Chocky - John Wyndham
• Sorry Please Thank You - Charles Yu

v23(1) 2013.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Stardust Revolution - Jacob Berkowitz
• The Festival of Fantastic Films - George Houston, George Gaddi & Tony Edwards
• Frontiers of Astrobiology - Chris Impey, Jonathan Lunine and Jose Funes (eds.)
• Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction (2nd edition) - Kevin W. Plaxco & Michael Gross

 

v22(7) 2012.12.21 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• NPG’S Policy on Authorship: Important change to submission criteria by Jordan Suchow
  Short Story (1 page PDF). In the future the science journal Nature changes its policy in a way that will concern humans as they will no longer be able to submit work for publication.

 

v22(6) 2012.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A Perfect Drug by Dan Erlanson
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Creating and bringing a new pharmaceutical to market is very expensive and fraught with difficulty. But the new drug Paxpharma was something else...

 

v22(5) 2012.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2012

• Newscast for the Autumn 2012. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Eurocon 2012 - Zagreb, Croatia - Jim Walker
• Unconventional - New Zealand's 2012 National Convention - June Young

v22(5) 2012.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Something Wicked This Way Comes - In memoriam Ray Bradbury
• The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
• Total Recall: What is real? - Philip K. Dick
• Earth Girl - Janet Edwards
• Cuttlefish - Dave Freer
• Make Room! Make Room! - In memoriam Harry Harrison
• 11.22.63 - Stephen King
• Half-Sick of Shadows - David Logan
• The Armageddon Rag - George R. R. Martin
• Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in honour of Jack Vance - George R. R. Martin and Gardener Dozois (eds)
• Echo - Jack McDevitt
• Railsea - China Mi้ville
• Last Days - Adam Nevill
• The Chosen Seed - Sarah Pinborough
• Triggers - Robert J. Sawyer
• Nocturnal - Scott Sigler
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• A Game of Groans: A Parody of Slush and Soot - George R. R.Washington
• Saving for a Sunny Day - Ian Watson

v22(5) 2012.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Science of Avatar - Stephen Baxter
• Miles M.52, Gateway to Supersonic Flight - Captain Eric Brown
• Head Shot: The Science Behind the J F K Assassination (Extended edition) -- G. Paul Chambers
• Evolving: The Human Effect and Why it Matters - Daniel J. Fairbanks
• Ignorance: How It Drives Science - Stuart Firestein
• Stars: A Very Short Introduction - Andrew King
• New Oxford Style Manual - Oxford University Press
• Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet - Rod Pyle
• The Goldilocks Planet - Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams

 

v22(4) 2012.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners by David Clements
  Short Story (1 page PDF). When big business controls the intellectual property rights to biological species, will gardening become as much a political act as a hobby...?   Now, Dave Clements is not just a scientist into SF (just the sort of person for whom Concatenation is primarily (but not solely) aimed), he has contributed a non-fiction, science article to us before (see 'The Hidden History of the Universe'). So it was a delight when -- during our annual sift at Christmas -- it happened that his story got short-listed as our selection of one of the best published by Nature the previous year. Them's the breaks. Enjoy.

 

April announcement: Thank you for the 2012 Eurocon Award from the European SF Society whose Eurocon was this year held in Croatia.

 

v22(3) 2012.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2012

• Newscast for the Summer 2012. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Appraisal of the venue for the proposed 2014 London Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• Duple Time: 24th UK Filk Convention - Peter Tyers
• 2011/12 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2012 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v22(3) 2012.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Insurrection - Dan Abnett & Colin MacNeil
• The Departure - Neal Asher
• Juggernaut - Adam Baker
• Bronze Summer – Northland: Book Two - Stephen Baxter
• Black Swan Rising - Lee Carroll
• Dark Heavens: Book Two – Red Phoenix - Kylie Chan
• Dark Heavens: Book One – White Tiger - Kylie Chan
• The Clockwork Rocket - Greg Egan
• The Monster's Corner - Christopher Golden (ed.)
• Conan the Barbarian - Robert E. Howard
• Jack Cloudie - Stephen Hunt
• Cyber Circus and Black Sunday - Kim Lakin-Smith
• The Society of Steam Book Two: Hearts of Smoke and Steam - Andrew P. Mayer
• In the Mouth of the Whale - Paul McAuley
• Transmission - John Meaney
• Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Saga - Pat Mills & John Wagner
• Them or Us - David Moody
• The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age - Robert Rankin
• Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
• 2012: The Crystal Skull - Manda Scott
• Bioshock: Rapture - John Shirley
• Shadows of the Apt: Book Seven – Heirs of the Blade - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Julian Comstock - Robert Charles Wilson
• The Return Man - V. M. Zitto

v22(3) 2012.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences - Michael Allaby
• 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True - Guy P. Harrison
• The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters - Mark Henderson
• The Lucy Man: The scientist who found the most famous fossil ever - C. A. P. Saucier
• 2012: Everything you need to know about the Apocalypse - Manda Scott
• Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction - Jonathan Slack
• The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction - Jaqueline Stedall
• The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe is not designed for us - Victor J. Stenger

 

v22(2) 2012.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• The Cleverest Man in the World: Problem Solved by Tony Ballantyne
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Falling with a broken parachute! What to do? Why, call the cleverest man in the world!
  This story actually came out December 2010 in Nature but just missed our yearly assessment for 2011 posting. We thought it so good that we simply had to carry it over.   But don't worry, we have three more 'Futures' stories (our selection of the best from 2011) to come in 2012. And as for the author, maths teacher Tony Ballantyne, he becomes the first 'Futures' author to have had two stories selected by us! Why not check out his novels Blood and Iron, Capacity, Divergence and Recursion.

 

v22(1) 2012.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2012

• Newscast for the Spring 2012. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Films from the Mummy's Tomb - Tony Chester
• Renovation - The 2011 World SF Convention - Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon - Ian Hunter
• 22nd Festival of Fantastic Films 2011 - Darrell Buxton
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v22(1) 2012.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Red Glove - Holly Black
• Spellbound - Blake Charlton
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
• Ubik - Philip K. Dick
• Bringer of Light - Jaine Fenn
• Heaven's Shadow - David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt
• Pax Brittania: Anno Frankenstein - Jonathan Green
• Vampire Empire: The Rift Walker - Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
• Queen of Kings - Maria Dahvana Headley
• Johannes Cabal the Detective - Jonathan L. Howard
• The Society of Steam: The Falling Machine - Andrew P. Mayer
• Dead Island - Mark Morris
• Tongues of Serpents - Naomi Novik
• The Islanders - Christopher Priest
• Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
• The Dark and Hollow Places - Carrie Ryan
• A Long, Long Sleep - Anna Sheenan
• War in Heaven - Gavin Smith
• The Harvest - Robert Charles Wilson

v22(1) 2012.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages - Michael Adams (ed.)
• From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages (2nd review) -- Michael Adams (ed.)
• On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears - Stephen T. Asma
• A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to accompany the Lord of the Rings - Cor Blok
• Denying Science: Conspiracy theories, media distortions and the war against reality - John Grant
• Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe - Andrew Milner, Simon Sellars and Verity Burgmann (ed.)

 

v21(7) 2011.12.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Dark They Were, And Strange Inside by Vaughan Stanger
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Internet dating in the multiverse is not as great as it sounds...

 

v21(6) 2011.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Health tips for traveller by David W. Goldman
  Short Story (1 page PDF). When travelling to other worlds it is best to ensure you have taken all the precautions necessary for a healthy visit.

 

v21(5) 2011.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2011

• Newscast for the Autumn 2011. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• How long? -- Should there be really thick SF novels? - Peter Tyers
• Context - New Zealand 2011 national convention - June Young
• Eurocon 2011 - Stockholm, Sweden - Jonathan Cowie
• Odyssey2010 - UK National Convention & Euroconference - Peter Tyers

v21(5) 2011.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronvitch
• Ark - Stephen Baxter
• Hull Zero Three - Greg Bear
• The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
• Bread, Butter and Paradoxine - Roberto Quaglia
• Desdaemona - Ben Macallan (Chaz Brenchley)
• Sea of Ghosts - Alan Campbell
• Spellwright - Blake Charlton
• Songs of the Earth - Elspeth Cooper
• The Nemesis List - R. J. Frith
• Empire of Light - Gary Gibson
• Final Days - Gary Gibson
• A Separate War and Other Stories - Joe Haldeman
• The Inheritance - Robin Hobb
• Johannes Cabal The Detective - Jonathan L. Howard
• Among Thieves - Douglas Hulick
• Fenrir - M. D. Lachlan
• Songs of the Earth - George R. R. Martin
• Embassytown - China Mi้ville
• The Ritual - Adam Nevill
• The Map of Time - Felix J. Palma
• The Recollection - Gareth Powell
• The River of Shadows - Robert V. S. Redick
• Quantum Gravity Book 5: Down to the Bone - Justina Robson
• The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
• Wonder - Robert Sawyer
• The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notes from the Apocalypse - Steven C. Schlozman
• Sky City - Carl-Eddy Skovgaard (ed.)
• The Watchers - Jon Steele
• Black Halo - Sam Sykes
• The Sea Watch - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Waters Rising - Sheri Tepper
• Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty -- Mega-City Justice - John Wagner et al
• Loss of Separation - Conrad Williams
• Blackout - Connie Willis
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2nd review) -- Charles Yu

v21(5) 2011.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Head Shot - G. Paul Chambers
• Revolutions that made the Earth - Tim Lenton & Andrew Watson
• Incoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite - Ted Nield
• Life on Earth: Portrait of a Beautiful, Middle-Aged Stressed-out World - Stanley A. Rice
• Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction - David Seed

 

v21(4) 2011.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• IRC: A Helping Hand by Julian Tang
  Short Story (1 page PDF). What if your computer was not only connected to the internet but something else entirely?
• Advance posting book review: Embassytown - China Mieville

 

v21(3) 2011.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2011

• Newscast for the Summer 2011. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Top 10 (and worst 10) Horror Films of the 20th Century - Tony Chester
• 2010/11 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2011 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year (Updated)

v21(3) 2011.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Rivers of London - Ben Aaronvitch
• The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie
• The Horns of Ruin - Tim Akers
• Engineman - Eric Brown
• The Demon King: The Seven Realms Series Book 0ne - Cinda Williams Chima
• The Exiled Queen: The Seven Realms Series Book Two - Cinda Williams Chima
• Stronghold - Paul Finch
• The Nemesis List - R. J. Frith
• Blood Royal - Jonathan Green
• Vampire Empire: Book One: The Greyfriar - Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
• The Golden City - John Twelve Hawks
• The Classic Heroes: Conan's Brethren - Robert E. Howard
• Black Hand Gang - Pat Kelleher
• Thirteen Years Later - Jasper Kent
• The Infernal Game: Ghost Dance - Rebecca Levene
• The Age of Odin - James Lovegrove
• Kraken - China Mi้ville
• The End of the Line - Jonathan Oliver (ed)
• The Buntline Special - Mike Resnick
• The Best of Tomes of the Dead - Matthew Smith, Al Ewing and Rebecca Levine
• Chopper: Surf's Up - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty – Backlash - John Wagner et al
• The Shape of Things to Come - H. G. Wells

v21(3) 2011.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Genesis of Science: The Story of Greek Imagination - Stephen Bertman
• Head Shot - G. Paul Chambers
• Climate Refugees - Collectif Argos
• Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change - Clive Hamilton
• The Wonder of Genetics: The Creepy, The Curious, and the Commonplace - Richard V. Knowles
• Quantum Physics for Poets - Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill
• Marie Curie: A Biography - Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie

 

v21(2) 2011.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Grandfather Paradox by Ian Stewart
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Sometimes you have to go back in time to kill your own grandfather just to stay alive... A great twist on a the classic science gedanken paradox.

 

v21(1) 2011.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2011

• Newscast for the Spring 2011. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Science Fiction in Romania since the 1990 revolution - L. Nistorescu, A. Genescu, D. Davideanu and S. Genescu
• 2010 Worldcon Review: Australia - Jonathan Cowie
• New Zealand 2010 national convention review: Au Contraire - Jonathan Cowie
• 21st Festival of Fantastic Films 2010 - Darrell Buxton
• The 2010 European SF Convention, Poland / Czech Republic - Jim Walker
• 2010 World Horror Convention Review: Great Britain - Peter Tyers
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v21(1) 2011.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Technician - Neil Asher
• Recursion (2nd review) -- Tony Ballantyne
• Surface Detail - Iain M. Banks
• Stone Spring – Northland: Book One - Stephen Baxter
• The Guardians of the Phoenix - Eric Brown
• The Passage - Justin Cronin
• The Book Of Genesis Illustrated - R. Crumb
• The Fall - Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
• For The Win - Cory Doctorow
• Guardians of Paradise - Jaine Fenn
• Nemesis List - R. J. Firth
• The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton
• Secrets of the Fire Sea - Stephen Hunt
• City of Ghosts - Stacia Kane
• Instinct - Ben Kay
• Wolfsangel - M. D. Lachlan
• Cold Warriors: The Internal Game - Rebecca Levene
• The Age of Zeus - James Lovegrove
• Halfhead (2nd review) -- Stuart B. MacBride
• The Restoration Game - Ken MacLeod
• Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance - George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (eds)
• The Dervish House - Ian McDonald
• The Dervish House (2nd review) -- Ian McDonald
• Absorption - John Meaney
• Kraken - China Mi้ville
• Apartment 16 - Adam Nevill
• Tongues of Serpents - Naomi Novik
• The Alchemist In The Shadows - Pierre Pevel
• The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and other Unnatural Attractions - Robert Rankin
• Demi-Monde: Winter - Rod Rees
• The Buntline Special - Mike Resnick
• Terminal World (2nd review) -- Alistair Reynolds
• Galileo's Dream (paperback) -- Kim Stanley Robinson
• Veteran (2nd review) -- Gavin Smith
• Engineering Infinity - Jonathan Strahan (editor)
• The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross
• The Office of Shadow - Matthew Sturges
• Blindsight - Peter Watts
• The Noise Within - Ian Whates
• Engines of the Apocalypse - Mike Wild

 

v20(6) 2010.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Press '1' to begin by Nye Joell Hardy
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The growth of internet communication, sites like Concatenation, social sites, chat rooms and so forth, has a downside: personal skills could suffer... Knock, knock...

 

v20(5) 2010.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2010

• Newscast for the Autumn 2010. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• German Science Fiction up to 1945 - Elmar Podlasly

v20(5) 2010.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Blood and Iron - Tony Ballantyne
• The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
• Moxyland - Lauren Beukes
• The Strain - Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan
• Zendegi - Greg Egan
• Damned if You Do in the Nightside - Simon R. Green
• Horns - Joe Hill
• Angel of Death - J. Robert King
• The Age of Zeus - James Lovegrove
• Ghosts of Manhattan - George Mann
• Uprising - Scott G. Mariani
• A Matter of Blood: The Dog-Faced Gods - Sarah Pinborough
• The Quantum Thief - Hanu Rajaniemi
• Circus of Sins - Natasha Rhodes
• Watch - Robert J. Sawyer
• Son of Man - Robert Silverberg
• Veteran - Gavin Smith

v20(5) 2010.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Eerie Silence: Are we alone in the Universe - Paul Davies
• Communicating Science: Professional, Popular, Literary - Nicholas Russell
• West of the Mountains and East of the Sea: The Map of Tolkien's Beleriand - Brian Sibley & John Howe

 

v20(4) 2010.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Goliath by Bruce W. Ferguson
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A giant asteroid is discovered heading for Earth and an extinction event...

 

v20(3) 2010.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2010

• Newscast for the Summer 2010. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Zombies After Romero - Tony Chester
• Unseen Mainland European SF Classics - Jonathan Cowie
• Odyssey2010 - UK National Convention & Euroconference - Roberto Quaglia
• 2009/10 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2010 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v20(3) 2010.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Cosmopath - Eric Brown
• Shine: An Anthology of Near Future Optimistic SF - (ed) Jetse de Vries
• The Prisoner - Thomas M. Disch (new 2010 edition)
• Geosynchron - David Louis Edelman
• The Stranger - Max Frei
• Nova War - Gary Gibson
• Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Evil Ways - Justin Gustainis
• Skin Trade - Laurell K. Hamilton
• Retromancer - Robert Rankin
• Stalking the Dragon - Michael D. Resnick
• Chasing the Dragon - Justina Robson
• Terminal World - Alistair Reynolds
• Wake - Robert J. Sawyer

v20(3) 2010.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life - Dirk Schulze-Makuch & David Darling

 

v20(2) 2010.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Takeaway by Tony Ballantyne
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The fast food business in a multi-species environment can be challenging...

 

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2010

• Newscast for the Spring 2010. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• China's Science Fiction World - Sherry Yao
• 20th Festival of Fantastic Films 2009 - Darrell Buxton
• Zombies Before Romero - Tony Chester
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Life, The Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
• The Gabble - Neal Asher
• Prador Moon - Neal Asher
• And Another Thing...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Eoin Colfer
• Eagle Rising - David Devereux
• Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick
• The Temporal Void - Peter F. Hamilton
• Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
• Spirit - Gwyneth Jones
• Patient Zero - Jonathan Maberry
• Halfhead - Stuart B. MacBride
• Gardens of the Sun - Paul McAuley
• Retromancer - Robert Rankin
• Starship: Flagship - Mike Resnick
• I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas - Adam Roberts
• Galileo's Dream - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Flashforward - Robert J. Sawyer
• The Clan Corporate - Charles Stross
• The Margarets - Sheri S. Tepper

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things - Cathy Cobb & Monty L. Fetterolf
• Bogus Science or, Some People Really Believe These Things - John Grant

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation - Tim Hamilton
• Strontium Dog: Traitor to his Kind - John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra

 

v19(7) 2009.12.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Harnessing the Brane-Deer by Robert Billing
  Short Story (2 page PDF). A tale of a Christmas prang at a Royal Airforce Base. What ho... (Ho, ho, ho...)

 

v19(6) 2009.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Birthday Surprises by Erika Cule
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A hard SF biology tale from a biochemist exploring nature and/or nurture.

 

v19(5) 2009.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2009

• Newscast for the Autumn 2009. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• The 2009 European SF Convention, Italy - Jim Walker
• 'The Horror, The Horror' -- A review of cinematic horror to mark the forthcoming first World Horror Convention outside of N. America
• London and Brighton guide for those going to the World Horror Con and Odyssey 2010 Euroconference on successive weekends this coming Easter
• Wellington/New Zealand guide for those going to the NZ national con the weekend before the Australian Worldcon
• PSIFA 30-year Anniversary Event -- Hertfordsire University / Hatfield Polytechnic Old Age PSIFAns get together

v19(5) 2009.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Orbus - Neal Asher
• Shadow of the Scorpion - Neil Asher
• Capacity - Tony Ballantyne
• Divergence - Tony Ballantyne
• Flood - Stephen Baxter
• City at the End of Time - Greg Bear
• The Accord - Keith Brooke
• The Hoard Mhorrer - M. E. W. Curran
• Oceanic - Greg Egan
• Consorts of Heaven - Jaine Fenn
• Principles of Angels - Jaine Fenn
• Eve: The Empyrean Age - Tony Gonzales
• Daemons Are Forever - Simon Green
• The Spy Who Haunted Me - Simon Green
• Memoirs of a Master Forger - William Heaney
• The Dragon Keeper - Robin Hobb
• Tutankhamun: the Last Secret - Christian Jacq
• Eternal Light - Paul McAuley
• The Quiet War (Pyr US edition out) - Paul McAuley
• Royal Exile: Book One of the Valisar Trilogy - Fiona McIntosh
• Irons in the Fire: Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution - Juliet E.Mckenna
• The City and ytiC ehT - China Mieville
• House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
• Zima Blue - Alastair Reynolds
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
• Zoe's Tale - John Scalzi
• Winterstrike by Liz Williams

v19(5) 2009.9.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• Century 21 Classic Comic Strips From The Worlds of Gerry Anderson vols 1 & 2 - Chris Bentley (ed.)
• Dan Dare - Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine
• James Bond: Polestar - Jim Lawrence, John McLusky & Yaroslav Horak
• The Nightmare Factory Vol. 2 - Thomas Ligotti
• The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck - Mark Waid & George Perez
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Sean Williams

 

v19(4) 2009.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Subject to Change by Joseph Lachance
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A hard SF physics tale from a biologist as to the Universe's nature.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v19(3) 2009.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2009

• Newscast for the Summer 2009. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Science Fiction in Romania up to 1990
• 2008/9 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2009 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v19(3) 2009.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
• The Painted Man - Peter V. Brett
• Kethani - Eric Brown
• Necropath - Eric Brown
• Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Secret War - M. E. W. Curran
• A Darkness Forged in Fire - Chris Evans
• The Accidental Time Machine - Joe Haldeman
• Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison
• Eternal Light - Paul McAuley
• The Quiet War - Paul McAuley
• Cyberabad Days - Ian Mcdonald
• Desolation Road - Ian Mcdonald
• The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction vol 3. - George Mann (ed.)
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Necrophenia - Robert Rankin
• Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds
• Stone - Adam Roberts
• The Forest of Hands & Teeth - Carrie Ryan
• Android's Dream - John Scalzi
• The Last Colony - John Scalzi
• Ilium - Dan Simmons

v19(3) 2009.4.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the anime and manga trade - Jonathan Clements
• Dan Dare (Parts 1 - 3) - Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine
• Strontium Dog - The Kreeler Conspiracy - John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
• Heroes vol.2 - various

 

v19(2) 2009.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• The Invisible Hand by Allan M. Lees
  Short Story (1 page PDF). An SF tale for scientists revealling how science really works... Really!
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2009

• Newscast for the Spring 2009. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• New Site Introductory Editorial - well, we were 21 last year don't you know
• History of Concatenation - well, we were 21 last year don't you know
• Tribute to Hatfield PSIFA's 30th Anniversary (with a link to their 10 anniversary zine) - well, they are 30 don't you know
• Top 10 (and worst 10) SF Films - Tony Chester
• Conjunction 2008: The New Zealand National SF Convention - June Young
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Fast Forward 2 - Lou Anders (ed.)
• Line War - Neal Asher
• The Ninth Circle - Alex Bell
• The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
• Ray Bradbury Stories - Ray Bradbury
• Firstborn - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• Five Great Novels - Philip K. Dick (Omnibus)
• Permutation City - Greg Egan
• Quarantine - Greg Egan
• Night of Knives - Ian C. Esslemont
• Troy: Fall of Kings - David and Stella Gemmell
• Extraordinary Engines - Nick Gevers (Ed)
• The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus - Harry Harrison
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
• The Taint - Brian Lumley
• Dream Songs - George R. R. Martin
• The Quiet War - Paul McAuley
• White Devils - Paul McAuley
• Maelstrom: Book Two of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth A. Scarborough
• Deluge: Book Three of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth A. Scarborough
• Dragon Harper - Anne and Todd McCaffrey
• The Sweet Scent of Blood - Suzanne McLeod
• Dark Blood - John Meaney
• The Steel Remains - Richard Morgan
• Stalking the Vampire - Mike Resnick
• Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
• Procession of the Dead - D. B. Shan
• The Terror - Dan Simmons
• Primal Heat - Susan Sizemore
• Tales From The Perilous Realm - J. R. R. Tolkien
• Martin Martin's On the Other Side - Mark Wernham
• Axis - Robert Charles Wilson
• Severian of the Guild - Gene Wolfe
• The Fade - Chris Wooding

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Who Goes There: Travels through strangest Britain in search of the Doctor - Nick Griffiths
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion - Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull
• The History of the Hobbit - Parts 1 & 2 - John D. Rateliff

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• The Beast Within - Ken Barr
• Judge Anderson - Shamballa - Alan Grant & Arthur Ranson
• The Colour of Magic: Illustrated Screenplay - Vadim Jean & Terry Pratchett
• Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Judge Dredd - Mandroid - John Wagner et al

 

v18(6) 2008.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A Better Moustrap by Mike Resnick
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A high-tech space station needs high-tech pest control...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2008

• Newscast for the Autumn 2008. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science, not to mention fandom and convention news, plus forthcoming books listings for this season. Either use the master newscast link index that directly connects to all the season's news specialist sub-sections or jump straight to the whole SF news page.
• The Masked Villains of Cinematic Serials - Adrian James
• The 2008 European SF Convention, Moscow, Russia - Jim Walker
• 18th Festival of Fantastic Films 2007 - Review by Darrell Buxton

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Hothouse - Brian Aldiss
• Neuropath - Scott Bakker
• The Domino Men - Jonathan Barnes
• City at the End of Time - Greg Bear
• The Adventures of Indiana Jones - Campbell Black et al
• Firstborn: The Conclusion of A Time Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• Tales From The White Hart - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl
• Iron Man - Peter David
• Blast from the past to mark TMD's passing - The Prisoner - T. M. Disch
• Incandescence - Greg Egan
• Luminous - Greg Egan
• The Dreaming Void - Peter F. Hamilton
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• The Kingdom Beyond the Waves - Stephen Hunt
• The Martian General’s Daughter - Theodore Judson
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft
• Hunter’s Run - George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham
• Marshal Law: Origins - Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill
• Black Man published as Thirteen in the US - Richard Morgan
• Ivory - Mike Resnick
• Starship: Mercenary - Mike Resnick
• The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds
• Swiftly - Adam Roberts
• Rollback - Robert J. Sawyer
• Procession of the Dead - D. B. Shan
• Lurulu - Jack Vance

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction - Thomas Dixon
• The Coming Convergence - Stanley Schmidt PhD
• Book of the Vampire - Nigel Suckling

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Jeff Hawke: Overlord - Sydney Jordan & Willie Patterson
• All-Star Batman & Robin vol.1 - Frank Miller, Jim Lee and Scott Williams
• Batman vs. Two-Face - various
• Star Wars: Dark Times - various
• Judge Dredd: The Henry Flint Collection - John Wagner et al

 

v18(4) 2008.6.30 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A New Note For Nat by Gareth Owens
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Being a hypersonic rock star is great... until you get too old.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2008

• Newscast for the Summer 2008. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science, not to mention fandom and convention news, plus forthcoming books listings for this season. Either use the master newscast link index that directly connects to all the season's news specialist sub-sections or jump straight to the whole SF news page.
• The High Frontier, Redux: Interstellar Travel Difficulties - Charles Stross
• Science Fiction in China: 2008 - Jenny Bai and Cecilia Qin
• 2007 Worldcon Review: Japan - Pete Tyers
• Blade Runner vs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Jonathan Cowie
• 2007/8 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2008 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Hilldiggers - Neal Asher
• Recursion -Tony Ballantyne
• Flood - Stephen Baxter
• Weaver: Time's Tapestry Book Four - Stephen Baxter
• The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury
• The Ninth Circle - Alex Bell
• Distress - Greg Egan
• Incandescence by Greg Egan
• Principles of Angels - Jaine Fenn
• Darkest Days -Stanley Gallon
• Jumper - Steven Gould
• Jumper: Griffin's Story - Steven Gould
• 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
• The Waking - T. M. Jenkins
• Duma Key - Stephen King
• Cowboy Angels - Paul McAuley
• Odyssey - Jack McDevitt
• The Metatemporal Detective - Michael Moorcock
• Galactic North - Alastair Reynolds
• House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
• Splinter - Adam Roberts
• The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi
• The Modern World - Steph Swainson
• Blue War - Jeffrey Thomas
• The Diamond Warriors - David Zindell

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner 2nd edition - Paul M. Sammon
• The Coming Convergence: The Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape our World & Future

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Batman: The Man Who Laughs - Ed Brubaker
• Batman: Rules of Engagement - Andy Diggle
• Hellblazer: Bloodlines - Garth Ennis et al
• Jeff Hawke: Overlord - Sydney Jordan and Willie Patterson
• Justice vol.3 - Jim Kruegeret al
• Star Wars: Dark Empire 2 - Tom Veitch et al
• Young Death: Boyhood of a Superfiend - John Wagner et al

 

v18(2) 2008.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Succussion by Steven Longworth
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Record-breaking global health has an unlikely cause and an equally odd solution.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2008

• Newscast for the Spring 2008. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Danish Science Fiction Between 2004 and 2007 - Janus Andersen
• The 2007 European SF Convention -- Denmark
• The 2007 Hispacon, Spain, reviewed
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films
• How the various Dan Dare reprints compare - Graphic novel review update/supplemental

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Divergence - Tony Ballantyne
• Conqueror: Time's Tapestry Book Two - Stephen Baxter
• Navigator: Time's Tapestry Book Three - Stephen Baxter
• Blood Music - Greg Bear
• Helix - Eric Brown
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
• Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book 2 - Stephen Donaldson
• Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
• Shield of Thunder - David A. Gemmell
• Stealing Light - Gary Gibson
• Light - M. John Harrison
• Nova Swing - M. John Harrison
• The Secret of Crickley Hall - James Herbert
• The Mark of the Beast & Other Fantastical Tales - Rudyard Kipling
• Necroscope: The Touch - Brian Lumley
• Cowboy Angels - Paul McAuley
• Eternal Light - Paul McAuley
• Fairyland - Paul McAuley
• Brasyl - Ian McDonald
• Creatures of Glass and Light: New European Stories of the Fantastic - Klaus ฦ. Mogensen (ed)
• Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
• Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
• Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
• The DA-DA DE-DA-DA Code - Robert Rankin
• Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
• Land of the Headless - Adam Roberts
• The Liberty Gun - Martin Sketchley
• Glasshouse - Charles Stross
• Mockingbird - Walter Tevis

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation - John Barrow
• Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science - Brake & Hook
• Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained: A Guide to the Mysterious, the Paranormal and the Supernatural
• Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science - John Grant
• Dalek I Loved You - Nick Griffiths
• Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine - J. Storrs Hall
• What's Science Ever Done For Us?: What The Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Live and the Universe - Paul Halpern
• Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of our Planet - Ted Nield

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Scarlet Traces: A Murder-Mystery Sequel to H. G. Wells' The War of the Words - Ian Eddington & D'Israeli
• The Boys: The Name of the Game - Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson
• Judge Dredd: The Carlos Ezquerra Collection - Ezquerra et al
• Star Wars: Legacy - Jon Ostrander
• Judge Dredd: Origins - John Wagner et al

 

v17(6) 2007.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct by Bruce Sterling
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The last human on Earth dies and so it is time to pause for a moment of reflection.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2007

• Newscast for the Autumn 2007. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Boreal - France's non-French national convention reviewed
• Lucien - The First Arab SF mini-convention reviewed
• Sci-Fi London film fest reviewed

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Fast Forward 1 - (ed) Lou Anders
• Emperor: Time's Tapestry Book One - Stephen Baxter
• Infinity Plus the Anthology - Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers (eds)
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Hunter's Moon - David Devereux
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
• Dr Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick
• Human Is? A Philip K. Dick Reader - Philip K. Dick
• Battlestar Galactica: Cylon's Secret - Craig Shaw Gardner
• Stealing Light - Gary Gibson
• Dark Lord - Ed Greenwood
• Death's Head - David Gunn
• The Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
• The Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
• Acorna's Children: Second Wave - McCaffrey and Scarborough
• Making Money - Terry Pratchett
• Black Man - Richard Morgan
• The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds
• Dante's Girl - Natasha Rhodes
• Set the Seas on Fire - Chris Roberson
• Sixty Days and Counting - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Selling Out - Justina Robson
• Old Man's War - John Scalzi
• The Swarm - Frank Schatzing
• Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard
• Deadstock - Jeffrey Thomas
• Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Prisoner Handbook - Steven Paul Davies
• Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of SF - Prucher
• Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest - Sterelny

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Dan Dare: The Man from Nowhere - Frank Hampson
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Commencement - John Jackson Miller et al
• Albion - Alan Moore et al
• The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning - Palmiotti et al
• Superman & Batman Vs. Aliens & Predator - Schultz & Olivetti
• Star Wars: Boba Fett - Man with a Mission - various
• Star Wars: Rebellion vol.1 - various

 

v17(4) 2007.8.10 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Reality Check by David Brin
  Short Story (1 page PDF). OK, so it is not a Matrix style reality, but even so sometimes don't you get the feeling everything's too bad to be true?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2007

• Newscast for the Summer 2007. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that covers all the news sub-sections
• The Science in Science Fiction by Ian Hocking
• Redemption - UK convention reviewed
• 2006/7 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (Archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2007 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• The Somnambulist - Jonathan Barnes
• Resplendent: Destiny's Children Book Four - Stephen Baxter
• Battlestar Galactica - Jeffrey A. Carver
• Fat - Rob Grant
• Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison
• Every Which Way But Dead - Kim Harrison
• A Fistful of Charms - Kim Harrison
• The Good The Bad And The Undead - Kim Harrison
• The Summoner: Book One, Chronicles of the Necromancer - Gail Martin
• Sorcerer's Moon - Julian May
• Changelings: Book One of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
• Maelstrom: Book Two of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
• Galactic North - Alastair Reynolds
• Gradisil - Adam Roberts
• Keeping It Real - Justina Robson
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• What We Believe But Cannot Prove - John Brockman
• The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
• HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life - Michel Houellebecq
• American Science Fiction TV - Jan Johnson-Smith

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Hellblazer: All His Engines - Mike Carey and Leonardo Manco
• Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere - Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry
• Albion - Leah Moore, John Reppion, Shane Oakley and George Freeman
• 28 Days Later: The Aftermath - Steven Niles et al
• Checkmate: A King's Game - Greg Rucka and Jesus Saiz
• Judge Dredd: The Hunting Party - John Wagner, Henry Flint et al

 

v17(2) 2007.2.27 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A Brief History of Death Switches by David Eagleman
  Short Story (1 page PDF). As the end of the World nears, and there are few humans left, will there be an afterlife? Sort of...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

 

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2007

• Newscast for the Spring 2007. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast index that covers all the news sub-sections
• SF in Bulgaria -- A current profile
• The 2006 Hispacon, Spain, reviewed
• The 2006 Festival of Fantastic Films reviewed
• Diary of national and international conventions and film releases (The 2008 diary will be compiled mid-December 2007)

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Capacity - Tony Ballantyne
• Genetopia - Keith Brooke
• The Sirens of Titan - Philip K. Dick
• The Zap Gun - Philip K. Dick
• Sagramanda - Alan Dean Foster
• Zootsuit Black - Jon George
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
• Old Twentieth - Joe Haldeman
• Peace and War - Joe Haldeman
• Lisey's Story - Stephen King
• The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• Throne of Jade - Naomi Novic
• Paragaea - Chris Roberson
• Fifty Degrees Below - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Air - Geoff Ryman
• Macrolife - George Zebrowski

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Stargate SG1: The Ultimate Visual Guide - Kathleen Ritter
• Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film - Brian J. Robb
• Roger Corman: Metaphysics on a Shoestring - Alain Silver and James Ursini

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Hellblazer: Stations of the Cross - Mike Carey
• Lucifer: Morningstar - Mike Carey
• Lenore: Wedgies - Roman Dirge
• Desolation Jones: Made In England - Warren Ellis
• The Batman Chronicles vol.2 - Bill Finger and Bob Kane
• Infinite Crisis - Geoff Johns
• JSA: Mixed Signals - Geoff Johns
• Justice vol.1 - Jim Krueger
• Superman/Batman: Vengeance - Jeph Loeb
• The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore & Ian Gibson
• Batman: Gotham County Line - Steve Niles and Scott Hampton
• Tom Strong Book Six - Alan Moore
• The Exterminators: Bug Brothers - Simon Oliver and Tony Moore
• Jonah Hex: Face Full of Violence - Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray
• Batman: Face the Face - James Robinson
• Birds of Prey: The Battle Within - Gail Simone
• Buddha vol.1: Kapilavastu - Osamu Tezuka
• Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron vol.1 - various
• Superman: Infinite Crisis - various
• Pride of Baghdad - Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
• Batman and the Monster Men - Matt Wagner
• The Complete P. J. Maybe - John Wagner et al
• Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall - Bill Willingham

 

v16(7) 2006.12.10 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Speak, geek by Eileen Gunn
  Short Story (1 page PDF). So a dog's a man's best friend, but there may be a flipside to species uplift...
• Christmas gift idea for yourself or a friend, and it will help support Concatenation too.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature stories.

 

v16(6) 2006.10.8 -- New 'Special' Article for the Tripoli Six

• Libya's SF Scandal - A fiction out of science has been created to provide scapegoats for those really responsible for the infection of hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. Meanwhile foreign health workers (international HIV researchers consider innocent) have been imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to death. The politicians, concerned with their own agendas, have failed. There is a now call for bloggers to rally on the internet! Should scientists who enjoy 'real' science fiction add their weight?

 

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2006

• News for the Autumn 2006. Which includes: SF News, SF Book Trade News; Major SF Author and Artist News; Eurocon/Worldcon News; Fandom; and also Film, Graphic Novel & TV News, Net Watch, Forthcoming Summer Science Fiction Book Releases, Forthcoming Fantasy & Horror Books, Forthcoming Science Fact and Non-Fiction Books, Forthcoming TV & Film Tie-ins Books and Computer Games, and the Last Quarter's Science News Summary which contains subsections on: General Science; Astronomy and Space, the Natural Sciences, Science & Science Fiction.
• The 2006 European SF Convention -- Ukraine
• A Retrospective on the First (1972) European SF Convention -- Italy
• The 2005 Ibercon -- Spain

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Genetopia - Keith Brooke
• Sunstorm - A Time Odyssey: Book 2 - A. C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• The Cosmic Puppets - Philip K. Dick
• A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick
• Against Gravity - Gary Gibson
• End of the World Blues - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Cell - Stephen King
• Temeraire - Naomi Novik
• The Toyminator - Robert Rankin
• Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
• Keeping It Real - Justina Robson
• How Noble in Reason - Alyn Rockwood
• Accelerando - Charles Stross

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos - Eric Chaisson
• The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture - Jason Colavito
• Heroes & Monsters - Jess Nevins
• The Science of Dr Who - Paul Parsons

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• JLA Classified: New Maps of Hell - Warren Ellis and Jackson Guice
• The Authority: The Magnificent Kevin - Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra
• Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct - Paul Di Filippo and Jerry Ordway
• Power Girl - Paul Levitz and Geoff Johns
• Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told - various
• Judge Dredd: Brothers of the Blood - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: The Art of Kenny Who? - John Wagner et al
• Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days) - Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham

 

v16(4) 2006.8.10 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Ringing Up Baby by Ellen Klages
• New potential Futures authors guidelines for the Nature series

 

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2006

• News for the Summer 2006
• Where are the Robots? - Tony Chester
• The Hidden History of the Universe - by David Clements
• 2005/6 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies
• Major SF Convention and Forthcoming SF Film Diary
• Gaia 2006 - Annual Whimsical SF and/or Science Snippets and Exotica

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
• The Crown Rose - Fiona Avery
• Quantico - Greg Bear
• Titan - Ben Bova
• Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
• Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
• Rama II - Arthur C. Clarke
• Galactic Pot-Healer - Philip K. Dick
• The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E Howard
• The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
• Polaris - Jack McDevitt
• The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
• Starship: Mutiny - Mike Resnick
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• The Endymion Omnibus - Dan Simmons
• Out of the Darkness - Harry Turtledove
• Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
• Macrolife - George Zebrowski

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Lex Luthor: Man of Steel - Brian Azzarello
• The Steel Claw: The Vanishing Man - Ken Bulmer & Jesus Blasco
• Hellblazer: Staring at the Wall - Mike Carey
• Road to Perdition 2 - On the Road - Max Allan Collins
• Batman/Ra's al Ghul - Devin Grayson
• DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore - Alan Moore
• The Complete D.R. & Quinch - Alan Moore et al
• Seven Soldiers of Victory vol.1 - Grant Morrison
• The (Spider:) King of Crooks - Jerry Siegel et al
• The Superman Chronicles - Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
• Conan: Riders of the River-Dragons - Roy Thomas
• Swamp Thing: Spontaneous Generation - Rick Veitch
• Judge Dredd: The Chief Judge's Man - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Satan's Island - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Total War - John Wagner et al
• RoboHunter: Play it Again Sam - John Wagner et al
• Fables: Homelands - Bill Willingham
• Star Wars: Empire vol.4 - various

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- Non-Fiction/Art Book Reviews

• The Art of Discworld - Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby

 

v16(2) 2006.4.15 -- Introducing Nature SF Futures stories Easter 2006

• An introduction to the Concatenation's Nature SF Futures story selection.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature stories.

 

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2006

• News for the Spring 2006
• Major SF Convention and Forthcoming SF Film Diary

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Crown Rose - Fiona Avery
• Transcendent - Stephen Baxter
• The Healer - Michael Blumlein
• Ghost From The Grand Banks - Arthur C. Clarke
• Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
• 9 Tail Fox - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Camouflage - Joe Haldeman
• The Road to Dune - Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, & Kevin J. Anderson's
• Dean Koontz's Frankenstein - Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson
• Provender Gleed - James Lovegrove
• King Kong - Delos W. Lovelace
• Learning the World - Ken MacLeod
• Firethorn - Sarah Micklem
• Woken Furies - Richard Morgan
• The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
• The Glamour - Christopher Priest
• Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds
• Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
• The McAtrix Derided - Adam Roberts
• Star Warped - Adam Roberts
• Accelerando - Charles Stross
• Settling Accounts: Drive To The East - Harry Turtledove
• Haint - Joy Ward
• Spin - Robert Charles Wilson

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Science Fact & Non-fiction SF Book Reviews

• Eurekas and Euphorias - Walter Gratzer
• Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions - Tony Hallam
• The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe - Michael Lockwood
• Whose View of Life? - Embryos, cloning and stem cells - Jane Maienschein

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Non-Fiction/Art Book Reviews

• Mythology, the DC Comics Art of Alex Ross - Alex Ross

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Star Trek - To Boldly Go - Mike W. Barr
• The Authority: Revolution Book One - Ed Brubaker
• Hellblazer: Black Flowers - Mike Carey
• Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree - Mike Carey
• King of Crooks - Ted Cowan
• Bloody Mary - Garth Ennis
• Dan Dare: Prisoners of Space - Frank Hampson
• Green Lantern: Rebirth - Geoff Johns
• Superman/Batman: Absolute Power - Jeph Loeb
• Identity Crisis - Brad Meltzer
• Promethea Book Five - Alan Moore
• Terra Obscura vol. 2 - Alan Moore & Peter Hogan
• The Omac Project - Greg Rucka
• Conan: Brothers of the Blade - Roy Thomas
• Ex Machina: Tag - Brian K Vaughan
• A History of Violence - John Wagner
• Trinity - Matt Wagner
• Thessaly: Witch for Hire - Bill Willingham

 

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2005

• News for the Autumn 2005
• HarperCollins' Voyager editor Jane Johnson interviewed
• The 2005 Eurocon and World SF Con (Glasgow) - Jonathan Cowie
• A Decade of Eurocons 1995 - 2005 - Jonathan Cowie
• Britain's 2005 Eastercon (Paragon 2) SF convention - Tony Chester
• Festival of Fantastic Film, Leicester - Tony Chester

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Abarat II: Days of Magic, Nights of War - Clive Barker
• Time's Eye - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• Under A Blood Red Sky - Richard Collins
• Mary and the Giant - Philip K Dick
• Galileo's Children - Gardner Dozois (ed)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 - Gardner Dozois (ed)
• Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
• Replay - Ken Grimwood
• The Lonely Dead - Michael Marshall
• Mind's Eye - Paul McAuley
• Market Forces - Richard Morgan
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Batman Begins - Dennis O'Neil
• The Brightonomicon - Robert Rankin
• Here, There & Everywhere - Chris Roberson
• The Va Dinci Cod - Adam Roberts
• Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
• Olympos - Dan Simmons
• In the Night Room - Peter Straub
• Double Vision - Tricia Sullivan
• The Risen Empire - Scott Westerfeld

v15(3) 2005.9.15 Science Fact & Non-fiction SF Book Reviews

• Fred Hoyle's Universe - Jane Gregory
• Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars and more Dynamite Devices - William Gurnstelle
• The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Michael Hanlon
• The Science of Discworld 3 - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
• Body Snatchers in the Desert - Nick Redfern

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- Non-Fiction/Art

• Imago - Jim Burns
• Batman: Cover to Cover - DC Comics

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• The Dark Horse Book of the Dead - Scott Allie (Ed)
• Broken City - Brian Azzarello
• Hellblazer: Red Sepulchre - Mike Carey
• Lucifer: Exodus - Mike Carey
• Bite Club - Howard Chaykin
• DC: The New Frontier vol.2 - Darwyn Cooke
• Ministry of Space - Warren Ellis
• Planetary: Leaving the 20th Century - Warren Ellis
• The Authority: Kev - Garth Ennis
• Dan Dare: Operation Saturn - Frank Hampson
• The Batman Chronicles vol.1 - Bob Kane
• Superman: Infinite City - Mike Kennedy
• Superman/Batman: Supergirl - Jeph Loeb
• Battlestar Galactica - Saga of a Star World - Roger McKenzie
• Batman: Year One - Frank Miller
• Sin City - Frank Miller
• Promethea Book Four - Alan Moore
• Tom Strong Book Four - Alan Moore
• Skizz - Alan Moore & Jim Baikie
• WE3 - Grant Morrison
• Gotham Central: Half A Life - Greg Rucka
• The Chronicles of Conan: The Curse of the Golden Skull - Roy Thomas
• Star Wars: Visionaries - various artists
• Fables: The Mean Seasons - Bill Willingham

 

v15(2) 2005.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2005

• News for the Summer 2005
• Science Fiction in Film Serials - Adrian James
• Feed Me! Food, SF & Technology - Tony Chester
• Noreascon 4: 2004 World SF Convention report - Peter Tyers
• Glasgow for visiting SF folk and the 2005 Worldcon
• Redemption '05: Blake's 7 & Babylon V Convention report - Peter Tyers
• Dixseption, the 2005 British Filk SF Convention report - Peter Tyers
• 2005 SF film top ten chart and other worthies
• 2005 SF DVD/video top ten chart
• Major convention diary & Forthcoming SF films
• Gaia 2005 - Annual whimsical snippets and exotica

v15(2) 2005.4.15 -- Science Fiction Book Reviews

• A Forest of Stars: The Saga of the Seven Suns II - Kevin J. Anderson
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
• Code Noir - Marianne de Pierres
• Ice Tomb - Deborah Jackson
• The Dark Tower Vol.7 - Stephen King
• Omega - Jack McDevitt
• River of Gods (paperback) - Ian McDonald
• Here, There & Everywhere - Chris Roberson
• Forty Signs of Rain - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Idlewild - Nick Sagan
• Edenborn - Nick Sagan
• Heaven - Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

v15(2) 2005.4.15 Science Fact & Non-fiction SF Book Reviews

• Alien Vs. Predator: The Creature Effects of A.D.I. - Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff jnr
• Fabulous Science - John Waller

v15(2) 2005.4.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• John Constantine, Hellblazer: All His Engines - Mike Carey and Leonardo Manco
• DC: The New Frontier vol.1 - Darwyn Cooke
• Justice League of America: Another Nail - Alan Davis and Mark Farmer
• John Constantine, Hellblazer: Rare Cuts - Jamie Delano and others
• Swamp Thing: Bad Seed - Andy Diggle and Enrique Breccia
• Global Frequency: Detonation Radio - Warren Ellis
• Judge Dredd: Judgement Day - Garth Ennis et al
• Dan Dare: Marooned on Mercury - Frank Hampson
• Ghost in the Shell 1& 2 - Shirow Masamune
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. 2) - Moore and O'Neill
• Arkham Asylum 15th Anniversary edition - Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
• The Authority: Fractured Worlds - Robbie Morrison
• Constantine: The Hellblazer Collection - Steven T Seagle, Ron Randall and Jimmy Palmiotti
• Ex Machina - Brian Vaughan
• Swamp Thing: Regenesis - Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala
• The Matrix Comics vol.2 - Larry and Andy Wachowski
• Robo-hunter: Verdus - John Wagner & Ian Gibson
• Tales of the Vampires - Joss Whedon and others

 

v15(1) 2005.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2005

• News for the Spring 2005
.
• Eurocon 2004 - Bulgaria
• Festival of Fantastic Films 2004

v15(1) 2005.1.15 -- Science Fiction & (some) Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Algebraist- Iain Banks
• Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy - Richard Chasemore and Hans Jenssen
• Robophobia - Richard Evans
• Stargate SG1 - The Essential Scripts - Sharon Gosling (Ed)
• The Blood Series - Tanya Huff
• Ringworld's Children - Larry Niven
• Singularity Sky - Charles Stross

v15(1) 2005.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Creatures of the Night - Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
• The Originals - Dave Gibbons
• Tom Strong's Terrific Tales book 1 - Alan Moore
• Superman: Birthright - Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan

v15(1) 2005.1.15 Science Book Review

• James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity - Jack Repcheck

v15(1) 2005.1.15 Non-Fiction (Art) Review

• Amazona - Chris Achilleos

 

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- New Columns & amp; Articles for the Autumn 2004

• News for the Autumn 2004
• Robert Sheckley -- Interview (next year's Eurocon/Worldcon non-European Guest of Honour)
• Conflux the 2004 Australian Natcon -- Review by Rose Mitchell et al
• 13th Festival of Fantastic Films 2003 -- Review by Darrell Buxton
• War! What is it good for? -- Article by Tony Chester
• Eastern European SF meets west: Report of the 2000 Science & SF cultural exchange -- A late elaboration of the Locus published report of the Eastern European, two-week visit to the UK & Eastercon, plus SF author welcomes
• Scientists' Public Understanding of Science -- Article by Ted Neild
• Koi Mil Gaya India's first SF film -- Article by 'Hari' Srinarahari

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Science Fiction & (some) Fantasy Book Reviews

• Cowl - Neal Asher
• Line of Polity - Neal Asher
• Karloff's Circus - Steve Aylett
• Coalescent - Stephen Baxter
• The Dalek Survival Guide - BBC
• Darwin's Children - Greg Bear
• Dead Lines - Greg Bear
• Beyond Infinity - Gregory Benford
• Time's Eye - Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 - Gardner Dozois (ed)
• Felaheen - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction - David G. Hartwell (ed)
• Song of Susannah - Stephen King
• River of Gods - Ian McDonald
• The Well of Stars - Robert Reed
• Cavalcade - Alison Sinclair
• The Affinity Trap - Martin Sketchley
• The Day After Tomorrow - Whitley Streiber
• Maul - Tricia Sullivan
• The Year of Our War - Steph Swainston
• Jaws of Darkness - Harry Turtledove
• Five Great Novels - HG Wells

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Gotham Central: In the line of duty - Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka
• Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze - Warren Ellis
• Orbiter - Warren Ellis
• Planetary: Crossing Worlds - Warren Ellis
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming
• Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus pt.1 - Frank Hampson
• Teen Titans: A Kid's Game - Geoff Johns
• Superman/Batman: Public Enemies - Jeph Loeb
• Tomorrow Stories Book 2 - Alan Moore
• Tom Strong Book 3 - Alan Moore
• The Filth - Grant Morrison
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Stake to the Heart - Fabian Nicieza
• Smallville - Mark Verheiden
• The Matrix Comics - L & A Wachowski
• Dredd Vs Aliens - John Wagner et al
• Fables: Storybook Love - Bill Willingham

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Science Book Reviews

• Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science - John Cornwell (ed)
• The Future is Wild - Dougal Dixon & John Adams
• Edward Teller: The Real Dr Strangelove - Peter Goodchild
• A Clone of Your Own: The Science and Ethics of Cloning - Arlene Klotzko

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & F Art Book Reviews

• Raw Spirit - Iain Banks
• Trinity - Dorian Cleavenger
• DC Comics - Les Daniels
• Comics Creators on Spider-Man - Tom DeFalco
• Deadly Seductions - Jose del Nido
• Girl Crazy - Michal Dutkiewicz
• Digital Art of the 21st Century: Renderosity - John Grant & Audre Vsiniauskas
• Kingsgate - Keith Parkinson

 

v14(2) 2004.4.15 -- New Editorial & Articles for the Summer 2004

• Editorial 2004
• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Summer 2004
• The Year's Top Ten SF Videos to Easter 2004
• Greg Bear interviewed
• SF, Globalization and China -- Lavie Tidhar
• Gaia 2004 -- Whimsy from 2003/4

v14(2) 2004.4.15 -- Fiction & Graphic Novels

• Vitals: Never Say Die - Greg Bear
• The Other Side of the Sky - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Wind From the Sun - Arthur C. Clarke
• Slide - Michael Day
• Nylon Angel - Marianne De Pierres
• Death Stalker Legacy - Simon Green
• The Mammoth Book of Future Cops - Maxim Jakubowski & M Christian (eds.)
• The Birthday of the World - Ursula K. LeGuin
• Context - John Meaney
• White Devils - Paul McAuley
• Tom Strong Book 1 - Alan Moore et al
• Stone - Adam Roberts
• Humans - Robert J. Sawyer
• American Empire: The Centre Cannot Hold - Harry Turtledove
• Judge Dredd: The Complete America - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Necropolis vols 1 & 2 - John Wagner et al

v14(2) 2004.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Book Reviews

• Futures - 50 Years in Space: The Challenge of the Stars - David Hardy and Patrick Moore
• Uncertain Science: Uncertain World - Henry Pollack

 

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- New Science Fiction News for the Spring 2004

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Spring 2004

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- New Diary of Principal SF Films & Happenings

• Principal International SF Convention & Film Release Listing

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- Convention Review

• The French National Convention 2003 - Alain de Bussy

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Solar Lottery - Philip K Dick
• The Dark Tower, A Concordance vol.1 - Robin Furth
• Light Music - Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton
• Nobody True - James Herbert
• Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
• Dark Heavens - Roger Levy
• Bread, Butter and Paradoxine - Roberto Quaglia
• The Future War - S. M. Stirling
• Darker Than You Think - Jack Williamson

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Book Reviews

• When Life Nearly Died - Michael J. Benton
• Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe - Simon Conway Morris
• Artcore #2 - Ralf Heinrich
• The Art of Jon Hul - Jon Hul
• The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction - Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (eds)
• Mystica - The Art of Monte M Moore - Monte M Moore
• The New Discworld Companion - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
• Angel: Hollywood Vampire - Keith Topping
• Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future 2003/4 - Worldwatch Institute

 

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- New Science Fiction News for the Autumn 2003

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Autumn 2003

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- New articles

• 2003 Worldcon Review
• 2003 Worldcon - A Personal Log
• Robert J. Sawyer interview

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Blind Lake - Robert Charles Wilson
• Hominids - Robert Sawyer
• Ilium - Dan Simmonds
• Roma Eterna - Robert Silverberg
• Tom Strong Book 1 - Alan Moore et al

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- Non-Fiction SF and Science Book Reviews

• Sci Fi & Fantasy Collectibles - Phil Ellis

 

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- New Science Fiction News for the Summer 2003

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Summer 2003

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- New articles

• SARS Science Review 2003
• Reading SF for the Blind
• SF in Bulgaria
• 2002 Worldcon: A Russian in a Strange Land
• Toronto - for visiting SF folk
• Utopiales 2002 Reviewed
• 2nd International Week of SF (2003) Reviewed

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- 2002 SF Video/DVD Top ten

• What were the Top ten SF Videos/DVDs of 2002?

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Dummyland - Steve Aylett
• Dead Air - Iain Banks
• Kil'n People - David Brin
• White Apples - Jonathan Carroll
• Cantata-140 - Philip K Dick
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K Dick
• Matrix Warrior - Jake Horsley
• The Mammoth Book of Future Cops - Maxim Jakubowski & M Christian (eds.)
• The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson
• Broken Angels - Richard Morgan
• Falling Out of Cars - Jeff Noon
• Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds
• Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days - Alastair Reynolds
• The Chronoliths - Robert Charles Wilson
• Son of Man - Robert Silverberg
• Hellblazer: Hard Time - Brian Azzarello & Richard Corben
• A Dalliance with the Damned - Mike Carey
• Transmetropolitan: Spider's Thrash - Warren Ellis
• Skreemer - Peter Milligan
• Nemesis the Warlock: Death to All Aliens - Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill
• The Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
• Promethea Book 2 - Alan Moore
• Tom Strong Book 1 - Alan Moore - awaiting file to upload

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Book Reviews

• The Art of John Bolton - John Bolton
• The Art of Clyde Caldwell - Clyde Caldwell
• The New Works and Visions of Dorian Cleavenger - Dorian Cleavenger
• A Full Colour Gallery - Steve Fastner & Rich Larson
• The Frank Collection vol.2 - Jane & Howard Frank
• The Art of Walter Girotto - Walter Girotto
• Skin Tight - The Art of Marcus Gray - Marcus Gray
• Metamorphosis - The Art of Matt Hughes - Matt Hughes
• Art Fantastix Select #3: Jennifer Janesko - Jennifer Janesko
• Sheer Desire - The Art of Michael M๖bius - Michael M๖bius
• Wicked Intentions - The Art of Dave Nestler - Dave Nestler
• Noda - Portraits of Pleasure - Shinichi Noda
• The Art of Drew Posada - Drew Posada
• The Art of Brian Rood - Brian Rood
• The Art of Lorenzo Sperlonga - Lorenzo Sperlonga

 

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Science Fiction News for Spring 2003

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Spring 2003

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Diary of Principal SF Happenings

• Principal International SF Convention & Film Release Listing

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Science Fiction & Fantasy Reviews

• Hidden Empire: The Saga of the Seven Suns - Kevin J Anderson
• The Velocity Gospel - Steve Aylett
• Abarat - Clive Barker
• Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker
• Origin - Stephen Baxter
• The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
• New York Blues - Eric Brown
• New York Nights - Eric Brown
• Lucifer: Children and Monsters - Mike Carey
• The Ancient - Muriel Gray
• Pashazade - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Effendi - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Coming - Joe Haldeman
• Once... - James Herbert
• The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer - Stephen King
• Everything's Eventual - Stephen King
• From a Buick 8 - Stephen King
• The Call of Cthulhu - HP Lovecraft
• Passage - Connie Willis

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Non-Fiction Book Reviews

• Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery - Paul Barnett (ed)
• Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate - Steven J. Dick
• What Just Happened - James Gleick
• Worlds Without End:The Historic Search for Extraterrestial Life - R. A. S. Hennessey
• Astrobiology: The quest for the conditions of life - Gerda Horneck & Christa Baumstark-Khan (eds)
• Perceptualistics - Jael
• Atom - Lawrence M Krauss
• Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Children's Genes - Gregory Stock
• Vital Signs 2002-2003 - Worldwatch Institute

 

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New news

• November 2002 News
• Progress Report 2 for 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction.

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New Convention Reports

• Eurocon 2002 - Chotebor, Poland
- Jim Walker
• The 13th Festival of Fantastic Films 2002
- Jonathan Cowie

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New SF Article

• Hatfield PSIFA and Warwick SF Re-union 2002
- Jonathan Cowie

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New Nonfiction Review

• Evolving the Alien
- Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart

 

v12(5) 2002.8.10 -- New news

• Forthcoming Book News to December 2002

v12(5) 2002.8.10 -- New articles

• State of UK SF Publishing
- Jonathan Cowie (2002)
• Is Biology a Science
- Jack Cohen (2002)
• Are Scientists Expecting the Impossible
- Ted Nield (2002)
• Should We Trust Scientists
- Peter Cotgreave (2002)

 

v12(4) 2002.6.30 -- New news

• Progress Report 1 for 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction. Don't forget to also check out the Preliminary Announcement below if you have not already read it.
• New Expanded Links Page.

 

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New news

• Don't forget to check out the Preliminary Announcement for the 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction, May, 2003. A major new guest will be announced with Progress Report 1 in June/July (2002)

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New Non-Fiction review

• Deep Future - Stephen Baxter

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New Science Fiction book reviews

• Only an Alligator - Steve Aylett
• Redemolished - Alfred Bester
• Voice of Our Shadow - Jonathan Carroll
• A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C Clarke
• Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
• I am Legend - Richard Matheson
• Ares Express - Ian McDonald
• Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
• Calculating God - Robert J Sawyer
• Frameshift - Robert J Sawyer
• The Emperor of Dreams - Clark Ashton Smith
• Wheelers - Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
• T2: Infiltrator - S.M.Stirling
• Bios - Robert Charles Wilson

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New Graphic Novels and SF Art Books

• Offerings - Brom
• Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, et al
• Transmetropolitan: Year of the Bastard - Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos
• Stormwatch: Final Orbit - Warren Ellis et al
• Judge Dredd: Goodnight Kiss - Garth Ennis et al
• The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate - Vincent Di Fate
• Angel: Hunting Ground - Christopher Golden et al
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Food Chain - Christopher Golden et al
• Hardyware - David Hardy
• Promethea book 1 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III, Mick Gray
• Swamp Thing: A Murder of Crows - Alan Moore et al
• Top 10 book 1 - Alan Moore, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon
• Mirage - Boris Vallejo
• Sketchbook - Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell
• Dreams - Boris Vallejo
• Judge Dredd featuring Judge Death - John Wagner and Brian Bolland

 

v12(2) 2002.3.12 -- New news

• Preliminary Announcement for the 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction, May, 2003

v12(2) 2002.3.12 -- New SF convention reviews

• Eurocon 2001 - Capidava, Romania
- Jonathan Cowie
• Utopiales 2001 - Nantes, France
- Andy Sawyer
• 1st International Week of Science and Science Fiction, 99
- Roberto Quaglia

 

v12(1) 2002.1.21 -- New non-fiction review

• Writing Fantasy and SF - Lisa Tuttle

v12(1) 2002.1.21 -- New fiction reviews

• Artifact - Gregory Benford
• From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury
• Troublemakers - Harlan Ellison
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman
• Emergence - Ray Hammond
• Dark Light - Ken MacLeod
• The Secret of Life - Paul McAuley
• Black House - Stephen King
• The Complete Roderick - John Sladek
• Zeitgeist - Bruce Sterling
• Sensing Others - Frank Tallis

 

v11(3) 2001.12.15 -- New editorial for 2002

• Editorial 2002
• Diary of Principal SF Conventions
• The Year's Top Ten SF Videos to Easter 2001
• Climate and Human Change: Disaster Or Opportunity?
• Gaia 2002 - Science whimsy for 2000/1

v11(3)2001.12.15 -- New fiction reviews

• Toxicology - Steve Aylett
• Titan - Stephen Baxter
• Moonwar - Ben Bova
• Things Unborn - Eugene Byrne
• dervish is Digital - Pat Cadigan
• Impakto - Richard Calder
• Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
• The Wooden Sea - Jonathan Carroll
• The Night of the Triffids - Simon Clark
• Something More - Paul Cornell
• Valis - Philip K Dick
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
• Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
• Dark Terrors 4 - Stephen Jones & David Sutton
• Dream Chaser - Stephen King
• Freezer Burn - Joe R Lansdale
• Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K leGuin
• Cosmonaut Keep - Ken Macleod
• The Stone Canal - Ken Macleod
• The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy
• Deepsix - Jack McDevitt
• The Dreamthief's Daughter - Michael Moorcock
• Seven Stars - Kim Newman
• Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds
• Marrow - Robert Reed
• Mappa Mundi - Justina Robson
• Oracle - Ian Watson

v11(3) 2001.12.15 -- new non-fiction reviews

• E=mc² - David Bodanis
• Paradigms Regained - John L Casti
• The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of - Thomas Disch
• Mendeleyev's Dream - Paul Strathern
• Universality - Mark Ward

 

v11(2) 2001.3.19 -- updated fiction reviews

• Kissing the Beehive - Jonathan Carroll
• The Marriage of Sticks - Jonathan Carroll

v11(2) 2001.3.19 -- new fiction reviews

• Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss
• Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
• Atom - Steve Aylett
• Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
• Space - Stephen Baxter
• Eater - Gregory Benford
• The Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury
• The Light of Other Days - Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• Killing Time - Caleb Carr
• Three Early Novels - Philip K Dick
• Beyond Lies the Wub - Philip K Dick
• Second Variety - Philip K Dick
• The Father-Thing - Philip K Dick
• Minority Report - Philip K Dick
• We can remember it for you wholesale - Philip K Dick
• Now wait for last year - Philip K Dick
• The Jesus Incident - Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
• Others - James Herbert
• Kingdom Come - Carl Huberman
• Reckless Sleep - Roger Levy
• Mike and Gaby's Space Gospel - Ken Russell

v11(2) 2001.3.19 -- new non-fiction reviews

• Preacher: Dead or Alive - Glenn Fabry
• Journeyman - Chris Moore
• The Art of Rowena - Rowena Morrill

 

v11(1) 2001.01.14 -- Concat Core SF Collection Checklists

• Books
• Films

 

v10(3) 2000.11.16 -- New Convention reviews

• The 11th Festival of Fantastic Films, 2000 - Jonathan Cowie
• Eurocon 2000 - Gydinia, Poland - Jim Walker

 

v10(2) 2000.7.28 -- new non-fiction reviews

• The Sandman Companion - Hy Bender
• Profiles of the Future - Arthur C. Clarke
• Conspiracy Theories - David Southwell & Sean Twist

v10(2) 2000.7.28 -- new fiction reviews

• Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov
• The Twist - Richard Calder
• Foursight - Ed. Peter Crowther
• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
• Slow Lightning - Jack McDevitt
• Vast - Linda Nagata
• Needle in the Groove - Jeff Noon
• Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
• Mike and Gaby's Space Gospel - Ken Russell
• 999 - Ed. Al Sarrantonio
• What You Make It - Michael Marshall Smith
• Chasing Dogma - Kevin Smith and Duncan Fegredo

v10(2) 2000.7.28 -- new video reviews

• Video Index

 

v10(1) 2000.3.21 -- new fiction reviews

• Buy Jupiter - Isaac Asimov
• The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
• The Business - Iain Banks
• Finity - John Barnes
• Time - Stephen Baxter
• Titan - Stephen Baxter
• Headcase - Jay R. Bonansinga
• Moonwar - Ben Bova
• Kissing the Beehive - Jonathan Carroll
• The Marriage of Sticks - Jonathan Carroll
• Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell
• Time on my Hands - Peter Delacorte
• Ubik - Philip K. Dick
• Luminous - Greg Egan
• Teranesia - Greg Egan
• Midnight Days - Neil Gaiman and various artists
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• Dark Terrors 4 - Jones & Sutton
• Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula LeGuin
• Moonfall - Jack McDevitt
• The Sky Road - Ken MacLeod
• The Kingdom - Mark Waid and various artists
• Oracle - Ian Watson

Prior to 1997 The Science Fact & Fiction Concatenation was an annual print magazine (nos 1 - 9) distributed to the UK national (Eastercon and the then Easter Elydore) as well as Eurocon SF conventions. Concat's first issue was in 1987 at BECCON (that year's Eastercon) for the 50th anniversary of the World's first SF convention.
(BECCON = BECCON'sEasterCon CONvention. Prior to 1987 it stood for the London region biennual convention the Basildon Essex Crest (formerly Centre) CONvention.)

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